The last time the Braves...

[Elvis]

The last time the Braves didn't finish in first place...

George Brett won the AL batting crown
Willie McGee won the NL batting crown

Ryne Sandberg won the NL home run crown

Pete Rose plead guilty to income tax evasion

Comiskey Park closed :ughh

Bill Buckner, Bob Boone, Chet Lemon, Claudel Washington, Keith Hernandez, Jerry Reuss, Fred Lynn, Dan Quisenberry and Bob Knepper retired

Gas was 99 cents per gallon

Add your "Last time the Braves didn't win the NL east" things.

[Mattingly]

I have no idea how St Louis and Chicago are on the NL East while Atlanta is in the NL West, but they sat squarely in the NL West basement with a 65-97 record.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL_1990.shtml

Must've been the Bobby Cox influence, as he'd taken over from Russ Nixon. From 1991 onward, they'd won 88-100+ games for all but the strike-shortened 1994 season.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL_1991.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/

[Elvis]

I hear Baseball-Almanac (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/yearly/yr1990a.shtml) is a pretty good reference site too. :waving