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1990 World Champion Cincinnati Reds: Where are they now?

Ah, October 1990. I was in 7th grade, and the Reds went wire-to-wire to capture the NL West, winning 91 games to finish five games ahead of the 1988 World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait a few months before, setting off the events that would result in the (first) Persian Gulf War. (Which until the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, would continue to be known primarily by its jingoistic "code name", Operation Desert Shield/Storm.)

(Given that an entire generation has grown up in the interim between 1990 and 2009, I find the need for parenthetical comments such as the one above...or this one...to be aggravatingly necessary, as you'll soon see...it's surprising how much the world can change in just 20 years. Don't even get me started on the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.)