Tenure With Cubs
Cubs chairman Don Grenesko hired Himes to succeed Jim Frey as general manager on the same October 1991 day that he fired Frey. The Cubs had come off of a season where three expensive free-agent acquisitions (George Bell, Danny Jackson, and Dave Smith) failed to lift the Cubs over .500.
Himes immediately hired his field manager, former Oakland Athletics coach Jim Lefebvre.
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