Rocky Colavito, the wildly popular and powerful slugger for the Detroit Tigers in the early 1960s, died on Tuesday at age 91 in Bernville, Pennsylvania, after a long illness. During his four years ...
Colavito kept the ball he hit for the fourth homer in his den the rest of his life, refusing requests to give it to the Baseball Hall of Fame. “It would be like giving up part of my life,” he said. It ...
Rocky Colavito, a wildly popular outfielder who was involved in one of the most debated trades in Cleveland sports history, has died. He was 91. A nine-time All-Star, Colavito died at his home Tuesday ...
New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra (8) reaches for throw from left fielder Norm Siebern as Cleveland right fielder Rocky Colavito starts to slide for the plate in the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium ...
Nine-time All-Star Rocky Colavito has passed away, the Guardians announced. The longtime MLB slugger was 91. A native of the Bronx, Colavito signed with the Indians out of high school. He had ...
In the long and illustrious history of Cleveland baseball, there may have been better players, but none were perhaps more ...
This column is for all the gray-haired men and women who grew up in the Cleveland area when I did, back in the second half of the 1950s and early 1960s when the only television stations were 3, 5 and ...
CLEVELAND — Rocky Colavito, a wildly popular outfielder who was involved in one of the most debated trades in Cleveland sports history, has died. He was 91. A nine-time All-Star, Colavito died at his ...
His power was really on display from 1957-59. In that three-year stretch The Rock hit 118 homers. His 42 homers led the AL in 1959. More on the Winter Meetings Could Guardians be a ‘soft landing’ for ...