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75 Years and Counting: The Story of the 1991 Cleveland Indians

The 1991 season was a real stinker. Though it was the one that saw Mike Hargrove get promoted to manager midseason, it resulted in 105 losses, the most in franchise history (the Cleveland Spiders were technically a different organization so their 130 loss season or whatever it was doesn’t count).

I won’t spend much time on the season other than to say that they started out 21-29, not great but certainly not dreadful, then they went on a 2-13 stretch, and it got worse from there. we’ll leave it at that.

There were, however, a handful of things that happened that helped set the stage for the 90’s teams.