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1991 Chicago Cubs Season

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1991 Chicago Cubs
Major league affiliations
1991 Uniform
Location
1991 Information
Owner(s) Tribune Company
Manager(s) Don Zimmer, Joe Altobelli and Jim Essian
Local television WGN-TV and Superstation WGN
Local radio WGN (AM) 720
Stats ESPN.com

BB-reference

The Chicago Cubs 1991 season brought high hopes as general manager Jim Frey augmented the Cubs roster by signing free agents Dave Smith, Danny Jackson and George Bell. The team also seemed set at third base with promising rookie Gary Scott.



Contents

Spring Training

Regular season

The Cubs would disappoint as Jackson would win just one game, Smith would show his age and Scott would be back at Triple-A Iowa before the end of May. Manager Don Zimmer was fired in mid-May, replaced for one game by bench coach Joe Altobelli, and then for the rest of the season by Iowa Cubs manager Jim Essian, to whom the Cubs gave a two-year contract. Essian won his first five games before the Cubs would fall back into a slump, causing Essian to shake things up by firing pitching coach Dick Pole.

The Cubs never shook out of their funk, and by the end of the season, the Cubs disclosed that Essian would not return as manager. A month later, Cubs president Don Grenesko reassigned Frey to advance scout and hired former Chicago White Sox general manager Larry Himes, who had been fired by the Sox a year earlier.

Season standings

Template:1991 NL East standings

Game log

1991 Chicago Cubs Game Log


References

  • Team Statistics[1]



Template:1991 MLB season by team

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