Rocky Colavito

Cleveland's Iconic Slugger

By: Mark Sommer

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Paperback | 24 June 2019

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248 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.42

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Iconic ballplayer Rocky Colavito captivated fans during the 1950s and 1960s with his movie-star looks, boyish enthusiasm, powerful bat and cannon-like arm. This biography of "the Rock"--the first in more than half a century--recounts his origins in an Italian immigrant family, his close friendships with Herb Score and Roger Maris, and his rise through the minors to become one of the Cleveland Indians'' most beloved players--who retired with the third most home runs by a right-handed AL batter.

The author also examines the controversial trade that sent Colavito, the AL''s 1959 home run champion, to the Detroit Tigers for batting champion Harvey Kuenn. Colavito''s departure was a crushing blow to Indians fans and the team''s subsequent 34-year slump was dubbed "the Curse of Colavito."

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"This impressive and extremely well-done story of an Italian-American kid from the Bronx who makes it big in the big leagues is a great read. Mark Sommer does an impressive job of conveying Rocky Colavito's love of the game, and makes very real the whole drama of being traded, not only in his wonderful opening about 'the trade,' but in the more mundane but highly disruptive trades that plagued his career. Rocky Colavito: A Life in Baseball is about baseball, it's about Cleveland, and in a very real sense, it's about America."-Mark Goldman, historian and author of City on the Edge: Buffalo, NY

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