Cleveland Indians: 5 times Tribe owned members of 2019 HOF class

As MLB enshrines its 2019 Hall of Fame class, it’s worth remembering five times when the Cleveland Indians got the best of baseball’s new legends.

The Cleveland Indians don’t have any inductees into baseball’s Hall of Fame, unless you want to count the 28 games Harold Baines spent in a Tribe uniform during the 1999 season.

But the names entering Cooperstown should conjure up some welcomed memories for Tribe fans, because the Indians sure did cause some hurt for these players, now considered the best of the best.

The 2019 Hall of Fame class keeps up with recent trends, as it’s a “Who’s Who” of baseball superstars from the 1990s.

Mariano Rivera, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina. They’re the cream of the crop, but each name conjured up an Indians’ member. The Tribe got ’em all, and  it’s with great pleasure to do the public this great service in reminding fans of the role Cleveland played in defeating legends.

Writing this column was a lot of fun because if you were living and breathing on every pitch like I was in the mid-to-late ’90s, ever detail is stored away in my brain.

Even the moments that didn’t have playoff implications are memorable, as you’ll see in one of the vignettes.

So here’s the Hall of Famers that had some not so Hall-worthy moments against the Tribe.