April 15 - Twenty Years Later

• No baseball games for Jack or me this weekend due to the Easter break. Zack did run his pitching record to 4-1 with a five inning, no earned runs allowed effort, against Lakota-East High School.
  
  I did have my 20th annual Fantasy Baseball draft on Saturday. This is where 11 or 12 middle-aged men get together to bid on real life baseball players. Their on the field performance dictates how your team does in the standings. You act as owner, general manager, and god in some instances.
  
  The amazing part is that we have been doing it for 20 years. There have been some owners come and go, but all in all our league is more stable than most marriages, political parties, or governments.
  
  In April 1986, gas was under a $1 per gallon. Since our league started, Yugoslavia and the USSR have ceased to exist.
  
  Other things that happened in 1986, include:
  
  
• The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after lift off, killing 6 astronauts and a teacher
• The US officially observes Martin Luther King Day as a national Holdiay for the 1st time
• US warplanes bomb Libyan headquarters in retaliation for terrorist attacks
• The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
• IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer
• ALF, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse premiere
  
  And the one that really makes me feel old - The Olsen twins, and Lindsay Lohan are born.