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9-18-17 - Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Spiders, 1887-1899
9-18-17 - Warriors

82-0?
Andy Dolich -- 2015
Andy Dolich

Streaking

By Andy Dolich
The Cleveland Indians had the country watching and cheering as they ran off a modern baseball record of 22 straight wins. As historians like to say, The Past is Prologue, so I looked into the past and, lo and behold, we have the tangled web of the Cleveland Spiders who played in the National League from 1887-1899.

Talk about streaks. In 1899 they lost 24 in a row in the midst of the worst baseball season ever, going 20-134. They were just a mere 84 games behind the pennant-winning Brooklyn Superbas and 35 games behind the next-to-last place Washington Senators. Ouch!

Their 101 road losses is a major-league record which will never be threatened. The team's longest winning streak of the season was two games.

In an ironic twist of fate, the Cleveland Spiders were owned by Frank Robison. Seventy-six years later the Cleveland Indians named Frank Robinson the first African American manager in baseball history.

In the midst of all these streaks of Cleveland baseball, how about some of the saddest losing streaks in sports?
NFL -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- 26
NBA -- Philadelphia 76ers -- 28
MLB Modern -- Philadelphia Phillies --23
NHL -- San Jose Sharks, Washington Capitals --17
College Football -- Northwestern -- 34
College Basketball, D-1 Men --Towson State -- 41
MLB Pitchers - Anthony Young -- 27

How about some losing streaks of a local kind?
San Francisco 49ers -- 10
Oakland Raiders -- 16
San Francisco Giants -- 10
Oakland Athletics -- 14
San Jose Sharks -- 17
Kansas City/Sacramento Kings -- 15 consecutive losing seasons

And I almost forgot, the Caltech Beavers men's hoop team lost 207 in a row.

Can't wait to see if the Golden State Warriors can go 82-0 this season.

Andy Dolich, President, Dolich Consulting -- Andy Dolich has held executive positions in the NFL (San Francisco 49ers), NBA (Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers), MLB (Oakland A's),NHL (Washington Capitals) Pro Soccer and Lacrosse. He is the Entrepreneur in Residence at Menlo College and teaches sports business at
Stanford's School of Continuing Studies.

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