Rocky Colavito Baseball player

Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito, Jr. (born August 10, 1933 in New York City) is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball best known for his years with the Cleveland Indians. He wore a #6, #7 or #21 jersey during his MLB career. Colavito was the fifth player in American League history to have eleven consecutive 20-home run seasons (1956–66), exceeding 40 home runs three times and 100 runs batted in six times during that span; he also led the AL in home runs, RBI and slugging average once each. Hitting all but three of his 374 career home runs in the AL, he ranked behind only Jimmie Foxx (524) and Harmon Killebrew (then at 397) among the league's right-handed hitters when he retired. In 1965, playing every game, he became the first outfielder in AL history to complete a season with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, and his 1272 AL games in right field ranked eighth in league history at the end of his career. He currently lives in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

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Rocky Colavito
Birth dateAugust 10, 1933

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 10, 1955
Career endSeptember 28, 1968
batting sideRight
former teams
Cleveland Indians
New York Yankees
position
Left fielder
Right fielder
teams
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Dodgers
History of the Oakland Athletics
New York Yankees
throwing sideRight

Rocky Colavito on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20060711&content_id=1552065&vkey=pr_cle&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle
  2. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=colavro01
  3. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Colavito_Rocky.stm