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Sitting on the couch with my dad at 9 geezerhood old and listening to Ernie Harwell's joyfulness once Rocky Colavito came to bat. Cash and Kaline encircled the rocket actuation Colavito who in good time launched a rubber bullet stripe actuation that splintered into the spaces nearer the revolting file. my dad got up and gave a reverberating "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK" as Ernie Harwell did the one and the same on the Detroit Tigers radio network.

In those years it was "The Rock" and Minnie Minoso, Larry Doby -- Kaline, Cash and Colavito. the rock that was built for baseball game and locale runs. his manipulation was on the far side belief for a taller, rugged participant and he had a fabulous artillery for an arm. I can hear Harwell indifferently exclaiming "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK" after Rocky gunned lint other runner. Rembering the Rock next to the Indians once he hit his ordinal in a row conjugal run in iv in a row at round the bend in Baltimore. The preventative orientated orioles with the eternal fences refused to put your foot him but the Rock persisted.

Remember the "big trade" that transmitted Colavito from the Indians to the terrorist organization ( Indian fans treated). Then the natural object went subsidise to Cleveland for much corking years and then off to else destinations with Kansas City wherever he did deeply symptomless. the cannon-armed quarters run baseball player In one of his definitive michigan The Rock winds up playing a teentsy (and intensely fine) for the New York Yankees, a troop Colavito loved as he was hatched in the Bronx, New York City. You can face at Hall of Famer accounts and and the Rock is comparable or better than quite a few. It was his charm and expertise that ready-made him so having mass appeal in Cleveland and made fans cry "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK"

The Rock

Colavito was not flotilla of linear unit. He reportedly had "flat feet" but he got on symptomless for a larger recitalist. His instincts were honed and his arm was suchlike a laser, maximum fun was look him fling out guys at the serving dish or go beyond a handing over next to a true weapon with optical device counsel. He was entirely error-less in one season. His assists and walks at the saucer ready-made him a extremely suicidal instrument. And what a hitter!

Colavito fans of all ethnicities were best impressed beside him at the bowl. in 1961, the mortal fielder hit 45 rockets with 140 rbis and a .402 on end proportionality. Teams didn't privation to sway to colavito. he was a squad musician all the way as proved by his friendships and course copy as a terrible part ideal for kids, fans, and American-Italians.

Baseball-reference.com is intense Rocky locality. If you are a Colavito fan, unify the Yahoo! Rocky Colavito newsgroup. They run a vastly nice and thrown abode meeting around the pound. The bang glows in this cloud as a impressively personable, proud, and tho' not perfect, a tangible role-model for American-Italians and his fans of all time. at 6'3" and 190 lbs. Colavito compete from 55'-68'.

Colavito and why he's not in the Hall of Fame

Colavito in Cooperstown? if you idea you were going to publication thing heavy here that is not the causa. There is no common sense why the stone is not in the mighty lecture theatre. The pound is more than stats. He was an American icon. wikepedia.com says "the swearword of bouldered colavito is a phenomenon that as rumour has it prevents the Cleveland Indians ball game team from winning, be it the world series, the American conference pennant, motility convey period of time play, or even acquiring into a award contest. its starting place is derived support to the detested exchange of truthful baseball player Rocky Colavito for Harvey Kuenn in 1960. it is a classic instance of an urban saga or a victim for the Indians' olden failures."

Did I hear "urban legend"? Colavito consequently returned to the Indians in his ordinal season, after a one twelvemonth suspend in Kansas City wherever he ripped 34 missiles with 102 rbis. He leads a semi-private energy in arcadian Pennslyvania. He and his kinfolk are doing intense. The Hall of Fame has to hear that somewhere out here. to me it's an outrage and a blow in the facade. Every example the Indians have a reunion next to the Rock, in attendance is a large-scale quantity who follows the whereabouts of the American-Italian municipality legend

- Rocco Dominico Colavito. Now explain why the Hall of Fame members snub him. Have theories? given birth lordly 10th 1933, the natural object is unmoving the stone in 2008. You can put together excuses but "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK!