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	TDA Book Review - The Curse of Rocky Colavito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As for Rocco Colavito, he wasn't particularly happy about the trade, and may have made some small "c" curses in private, but a closer look at Cleveland history shows us that it was bad management, and more than a little bad luck, that made the Indians losers for a generation.
		After all, Colavito was re-acquired in 1965 and they didn't fare any better in his three-year stint with them in the late '60s than they did in his absence.
		Rocky kept on hitting homers in Motown; Kuenn was traded to the Giants a year after arriving in Cleveland.
	www.thediamondangle.com /books/rocky.html (857 words)

	Rocky Colavito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His explanation was that the trade of Colavito in 1960 sent the team on a path to mediocrity that had now lasted 34 seasons.
		He also suggested that the trade to bring Colavito back was as bad as the one that sent him away.
		Colavito has denied putting a curse on the team, but that doesn't mean that some unseen, supernatural force, did not do so.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocky_Colavito (488 words)

	Rocky Colavito
		Colavito hit 34 HR in his one season in the KC and was dealt back to Cleveland in a three team deal before the '65 season.
		Colavito began the 1968 season in the National League with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but was dealt to the Yankees after appearing just 40 games in Dodger blue.
		Colavito most notable accomplishment as a Yankee was becoming the last position player to win a game as a pitcher.
	z.lee28.tripod.com /sbnsforgottenintime/id10.html (655 words)

	The Colavito-Kuenn Trade, April 17, 1960
		Colavito led the AL in slugging in 1958 with a.620 mark, while Kuenn's.501 in 1959 was by far the highest of his career.
		Colavito wasn't fast either - in fact, he was downright slow - but his arm was one of the best in the game.
		Rocky Colavito energized the team with 42 homers that year, and also tied the major league record with four in a game in June.
	www.wcnet.org /~dlfleitz/col.htm (1189 words)

	Rocky Colavito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rocky mows down his old team, the pennant-bound Tigers, as a pitcher for the Yankees.
		This is Rocky as a coach with the Cleveland Indians during the mid-1970s.
		Rocky as a coach with the KC Royals, 1982-83.
	users.ev1.net /~Lavietes/rc.htm (730 words)

	The Curse of Rocky Colavito / Terry Pluto \| BaseballLibrary.com
		The Curse of Rocky Colavito / Terry Pluto
		Colavito was the Rock...the Rock of the franchise.
		Since trading Colavito, the closest the Indians have been to first place at season's end was eleven games out, except in the strike-marred year of 1981.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/excerpts/curse_of_colavito.stm (415 words)

	Sports 2000 Players - Tigers and Indians fans react differently to trade
		Colavito's backers in Cleveland turned their anger against Frank Lane, berating the Indians' daring general manager for getting rid of the Tribe's 26-year old slugger with 42 homers and 111 RBI's last season.
		In spite of that, Rocky was a hero in Cleveland and will be a hero in Detroit if he can keep up the home run pace which has resulted in 129 four-baggers for the Indians from 1956 through 1959.
		DeWitt and Lane pushed the talks later, while Kuenn and Colavito both were demanding stiff increases in their 1960 paychecks, Colavito settled for a reported $35,000 just before spring training, but only after a bitter argument with lane.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/players/147570.html (984 words)

	Sports 2000 Players - Colavito-Kueen deal shocked the baseball world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rocky Colavito (left) talks things over with Harvey Kueen during the 1960 season.
		Colavito was easily the Indians' most popular player in the late 1950s.
		In 1958, Colavito slugged 41 homers and had 111 RBIs and in 1959 he led the AL with 42 homers and drove in 112 runs.
	archive.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/players/147571.html (1206 words)

	American Heroes
		Rocky Colavito was one of the most popular ballplayer in the Indians' history.
		Colavito was the Indians answer to Mickey Mantle when he clubbed 41 homers in 1958; one shy of Mantle's league leading 42.
		Rocky arm was so powerful that he once threw a ball over the roof of Briggs Stadium in Detroit as a feature before the ballgame.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=19 (1399 words)

	Rocky Colavito \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Colavito made himself a complete player, a run-producing slugger and a right fielder with an arm comparable to that of Roberto Clemente.
		In 1958 Colavito batted.303 with 41 homers and 113 RBI.
		Colavito was on first base in an exhibition game in Memphis against the White Sox when manager Joe Gordon informed him of the trade.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Colavito_Rocky.stm (2178 words)

	Player Profile:Rocky Colavito
		diamondfans.com notes: Colavito was fan favorite in Cleveland in the late fifties, and his trade to Detroit after the '59 season for batting champion Harvey Kuenn was not well received (to put it mildly) by Indian fans.
		Colavito was a solid ballplayer: a slugging outfielder with a strong arm in right field.
		His noteworthy accomplishments included hitting home runs in four consecutive at bats in a game on June 19, 1959, playing 162 games in the outfield without an error (in 1965), and hitting twenty or more home runs in 11 consecutive seasons (1956-1966).
	www.diamondfans.com /profile-colavito.html (150 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Rocky Colavito
		The Padres were the Indians' minor league affiliate then, and Rocky Colavito, throwing from behind home plate, flung one over the center-field wall that couldn't be accurately measured because it struck the batting cage parked in front of the scoreboard.
		Rocky Colavito is 55th with 374 and Fisk is 54th with 376.
		Former Tigers slugger Rocky Colavito was one of the first big-leaguers to make the sign of the cross as he stepped to the plate.
	sports.surfwax.com /files/Rocky_Colavito.html (1129 words)

	Rocky Colavito Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Rocky Colavito was born on Thursday, August 10, 1933, in New York, New York.
		Colavito was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 10, 1955, with the Cleveland Indians.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Rocky Colavito baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=colavro01 (308 words)

	Major League Baseball News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colavito does find time, he says, to fit an occasional baseball card show or memorabilia show into this life in semi-retirement.
		Colavito was power and personality wrapped in the outer trappings of a matinee idol.
		Colavito retired as a player after the 1968 season, which he spent with the Dodgers and Yankees.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_wdhg_story.jsp?ymd=20020614&content_id=52749&vkey=wdhg&fext=.jsp (794 words)

	Rocky Colavito \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Colavito was prone to slumps, and the Cleveland fans would jump all over him.
		Colavito had originally been signed as a pitcher-outfielder; he pitched one game for Cleveland in 1958, and beat the Tigers in relief for the Yankees in 1968, to record a career ERA of 0.00.
		Colavito is ejected, but the Tigers win in the 9th on P Frank Lary's home run.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Colavito_Rocky.stm (2178 words)

	Cleveland Indians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They appeared in the World Series in 1948 and 1954 (when they won 111 games in a 154-game season), and were in regular contention for the pennant with the dominant New York Yankees.
		A 30+ year slump began for the Indians with the club's most infamous trade; which involved slugging right fielder, and huge fan favorite, Rocky Colavito.
		Just before opening day in 1960 Colavito was traded to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleveland_Indians (1985 words)

	SportingNews.com
		Colavito was the defending AL home run champion (42).
		Colavito's OBP was.365, and his SLG was.534 for an OPS of.899, substantially higher.
		Moreover, Kuenn's RC27 was 5.68, and Colavito's was 7.09.
	www.sportingnews.com /features/stats/mlb_trades.html (240 words)

	Bronx Banter: The Gift of Herb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Rocky Colavito trade signaled the demise of an Indians team, which had enjoyed a period of great success; it also set forth a series of events that would cast the team into the baseball cellar for the better part of three decades.
		Rocky would stand at home plate and try to throw a ball over the center field wall on a fly.
		Rocky Colavito may have been the heart of Cleveland, but Score has been its soul.
	www.all-baseball.com /bronxbanter/archives/003082.html (2547 words)

	Bronx Banter: ROCKY REDUX: DON'T KNOCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the footnote for a review I recently posted on Terry Pluto’s “Curse of Rocky Colavito”, I wondered whether or not Pluto would need to revise his view of the Indians as lovable losers in light of the organization’s recent success.
		Speaking of Rocky Colavito, the former Tribe slugger is one of 26 players up for HoF consideration by the newly revamped Veterans Committee.
		Colavito, in the final year of his career (1968), was released early in the season by the L.A. Dodgers, and picked up by the Yankees on June 15th.
	www.all-baseball.com /bronxbanter/archives/003076.html (848 words)

	News Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colavito is a member of the cast of the NSU Summer Dinner Theatre production of "Annie Get Your Gun," which opens June 21 in the A.A. Fredericks Auditorium.
		Colavito has been interested in theatre since high school.
		Colavito says the rehearsals for "Annie Get Your Gun" have been "one of the toughest things I've done in my life.
	www.nsula.edu /news/rocky16.htm (456 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rocky Colavito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In baseball statistics, total chances (denoted by TC) represents the number of plays that a defensive player participated in.
		The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, the culmination of the sports postseason each October.
		The Curse of Rocky Colavito (curse supposedly began in 1960) is a phenomenon that supposedly prevented the Cleveland Indians baseball team from winning a World Series, or an American League pennant, or reaching postseason play, or even getting into a pennant race, following the 1960 trade of right fielder Rocky...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rocky-Colavito (2153 words)

	Rocky Colavito: Additional Facts \| BaseballLibrary.com
		On July 5, 1962, Rocky Colavito hit three home runs in one game for the Detroit Tigers against his former team, the Cleveland Indians.
		This was the second time he had hit three in one game - in addition to the June 10, 1959 game in which he hit four consecutive HRs.
		In 1976, Rocky Colavito was voted the all-time most popular player for the Cleveland Indians.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/LaVietes_Phyllis_M.1.stm (86 words)

	southcountyjournal.com - Real authenticity might be as elusive as fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was signed by Rocky Colavito, the great Cleveland Indians slugger of the 1950s and '60s.
		Bill's dad pointed out that the pristine ball with the signature would be worth a lot of money someday when Rocky Colavito was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
		And, incidentally, Rocky Colavito never made it to the Hall of Fame.
	www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/100247 (1018 words)

	No words necessary, LMAO - GOAZCATS.com Message Board
		I didn't ask, Rocky, and neither myself, JMJ or anyone else is about to.
		You will post respectfully, or every trace of you will be removed from this board.
		That is, in a nutshell the reason JM gave for his noted absence.
	forum.goazcats.com /showthread.php?t=30576 (704 words)

	Tony Conigliaro: How good was he? a comparison
		Colavito batted 2,840 times hitting at a respectable.282 clip and Conigliaro batted 2,549 times averaging.255.
		To bring everything up to par, I brought Rocky and Tony C’s at bats up to 3,135 to match Oliva’s then I adjusted the rest of their statistics in the line with each ones performance per at bat.
		For Colavito he was 295 at bats shy of Oliva.
	www.athomeplate.com /conigliaro.shtml (603 words)

	Legends of the Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Time ran this cover of outfielder Rocky Colavito in 1959, he was playing for the Cleveland Indians and was part of a galaxy of promising baseball players who, according to the magazine, were creating an notable upsurge of enthusiasm for America’s national pastime.
		One of his feats that year was hitting four home runs in one game, and at season’s close his home-run total would reach forty-two.
		The painter of Colavito’s portrait, Boris Chaliapin, was not a baseball fan.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/legends/rocky2.htm (151 words)

	Alex Belth's Bronx Banter
		The Mets were resoundingly bumped off the backpages this week, but Bob Klapisch reports on the impact Cliff Floyd may have out at Shea next year.
		That is the conceit of Terry Pluto’s breezy, informal, and affectionate history of the Tribe, "The Curse of Rocky Colavito: A Loving Look at a 30-year slump"*.
		"Rocky had the strongest arm of anyone in the Cleveland farm system, and that includes the pitchers," said Score.
	bronxbanter.blogspot.com /2002_12_22_bronxbanter_archive.html (5783 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - CURSE OF ROCKY COLAVITO: A LOVING LOOK AT A THIRTY-YEAR SLUMP (Terry Pluto)
		Author Terry Pluto contends that the demise of the Indians on the field can be traced to the April 1960 trade of slugger Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn.
		It wasn't a particularly good trade; Colavito was a ball-crushing slugger and a fan favorite but Kuenn was a batting champion who specialized in flares to the gap.
		Then there were ridiculous trades: notably a 1965 trade to reacquire Rocky Colavito, but they had to give up both Tommie Agee (who went on to star with the New York Mets during their championship season in 1969) and Tommy John (who won 286 games after departing Cleveland).
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0684804158.htm (1030 words)

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