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Cleveland Indians all-time mustache team

By Nick Dudukovich

1990: AN UNIDENTIFIED CHICAGO WHITE SOX RUNNER SLIDES INTO SECOND BASE AS CLEVELAND INDIANS INFIELDER FELIX FERMIN TURNS A DOUBLE PLAY DURING THE INDIANS GAME AT INDIANS PARK IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. MANDATORY CREDIT: RICK STEWART/ALLSPORT
1990: AN UNIDENTIFIED CHICAGO WHITE SOX RUNNER SLIDES INTO SECOND BASE AS CLEVELAND INDIANS INFIELDER FELIX FERMIN TURNS A DOUBLE PLAY DURING THE INDIANS GAME AT INDIANS PARK IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. MANDATORY CREDIT: RICK STEWART/ALLSPORT /
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7 Jul 1993: A CANDID PORTRAIT OF CLEVELAND INDIANS OUTFIELDER ALBERT BELLE DURING THE INDIANS VERSUS THE OAKLAND A”S GAME AT OAKLAND COUNTY STADIUM IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
7 Jul 1993: A CANDID PORTRAIT OF CLEVELAND INDIANS OUTFIELDER ALBERT BELLE DURING THE INDIANS VERSUS THE OAKLAND A”S GAME AT OAKLAND COUNTY STADIUM IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA /

Albert Belle, LF

Albert Belle is one of the greatest sluggers in MLB history. That 50-50 seasons, in 144 games no less, is one of the marvels of the modern era.

How Mo Vaughn beat out Belle for the MVP season is still a crime. It certainly has nothing to do with Belle’s ‘stache game. Albert was already a mean looking dude. The mustache applied that by a million.

Clevelanders especially remember Belle’s turbulent relationship with the media, and the mustache didn’t help.

Anyway, baseball writers vote for the MVP, and there were a lot of scribes who were turned off by Belle’s personality.

In the mid 1990s, he was one of the Major League Baseball’s most feared sluggers, and that mustache just added to mystique.

Imagine being a pitcher, with Belle staring you down with his legendary focus. Don’t think the mustache didn’t account for a big part of that.

Belle is second all time in Tribe history with 242 of his 381 homers coming as a Cleveland Indian.

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