#Rocky Colavito

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Today In 1959: Cleveland Indians slugger Rocky Colavito clubs 4 HRs in one game vs. the Baltimore Orioles!

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Ronald Acuña conecta su primer jonrón de la temporada - Redacción externa.- El venezolano Ronald Acuña Jr., el Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Nacional en 2023, bateó su primer jonrón de la temporada. El jardinero derecho de los Bravos puso fin a su sequía con un cuadrangular solitario en la quinta entrada en la victoria por 5-4 sobre los Astros en 10 innings el […] - https://vozglobal.com.do/deportes/ronald-acuna-conecta-su-primer-jonron-de-la-temporada/ - -

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Ronald Acuña conecta su primer jonrón de la temporada

Redacción externa.- El venezolano Ronald Acuña Jr., el Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Nacional en 2023, bateó su primer jonrón de la temporada.

El jardinero derecho de los Bravos puso fin a su sequía con un cuadrangular solitario en la quinta entrada en la victoria por 5-4 sobre los Astros en 10 innings el miércoles por la tarde en el Minute Maid Park.

Ronald Acuña Jr.’s first home run of the year gives the @Braves the lead! pic.twitter.com/yTb6gMOsmX

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«Sentí que le di bien, pero que le di demasiado por debajo», dijo Acuña. «Sentía que la había elevado demasiado. Pero afortunadamente salió».

Acuña protagonizó el mejor momento de una jornada en la que los Bravos completaron una barrida de tres juegos con otra sólida actuación del bullpen y un sencillo del también venezolano Orlando Arcia con dos outs y ventaja en la décima entrada. Pierce Johnson, el boricua Joe Jiménez, A.J. Minter y el cubano Raisel Iglesias evitaron que los Astros anotaran en los últimos cuatro episodios.

El trabajo del bullpen ayudó a los Bravos a recuperar la ventaja temprana que habían logrado gracias a los jonrones conectados por Acuña y el dominicano Marcell Ozuna, quien lidera las Grandes Ligas en jonrones (ocho) y carreras impulsadas (23).

Tal vez Acuña solo necesitaba acostumbrarse a la sensación de conectar un jonrón. No hubo nada barato del sweeper de J.P. France que mandó sobre el muro del jardín central. La bola salió del bate a 109.5 mph y tuvo una distancia proyectada por Statcast de 422 pies. Hubiera sido un jonrón en todos los parques de Grandes Ligas excepto en el Chase Field de Arizona.

Aun así, mientras Acuña llegaba a la primera base, miró atrás hacia el dugout de los Bravos, sonrió y encogió los hombros, aparentemente incrédulo.

«Cuando conectas un jonrón a esa parte del parque contra ese tipo de lanzamiento, es una buena señal», dijo el abridor de los Bravos, Max Fried.

Atlanta tiene el mejor récord de la Liga Nacional con marca de 12-5. Luego de igualar el récord de jonrones de temporada de Grandes Ligas (307) en el 2023 y convertirse en el primer equipo en la historia de las Ligas Americana y Nacional que produce un slugging de .500, los Bravos parecen tener nuevamente la mejor ofensiva del juego. Han seguido bateando a un alto nivel, a pesar de que Acuña tiene un OPS de .797 con solo cinco extrabases hasta ahora.

Es demasiado pronto para preocuparse por las estadísticas. Pero los números de Acuña fueron más llamativos debido a lo que hizo el año pasado, cuando se convirtió en el primer jugador en conectar más de 40 bambinazos y acumular al menos 70 bases robadas en una temporada.

«Incluso anoche, estaba dándole mal a algunas bolas y logrando hits», dijo el mánager de los Bravos, Brian Snitker. «Es como cuando los muchachos comienzan a hacer eso, están listos para despegar y entrar en una buena racha. Está conectado hits y robando bases. Estoy seguro de que fue bueno para él sacar ese primer jonrón del camino».

La sequía de Acuña sin jonrones de 65 turnos al bate para comenzar la temporada es la quinta más larga por parte de cualquier jugador después de un año de 40 jonrones. Las sequías más largas fueron las de Marcus Semien (173 en el 2022), Rocky Colavito (100 en 1962), el dominicano Alfonso Soriano (74 en el 2007) y Frank Thomas (74 en 1997).

No es que Acuña haya tenido un comienzo encendido la temporada pasada en cuanto al poder se refiere. Terminó el mes de abril con apenas cuatro jonrones. Conectó 11 de sus 41 jonrones en septiembre. En otras palabras, hay mucho tiempo para que disfrute de una de sus insólitas rachas de poder.

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July 5, 1962 - Don Dillard’s ninth-inning home run gave the Cleveland Indians a 7-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers tonight despite 3 consecutive home runs by Rocky Colavito (pictured left with Al Kaline at Yankee Stadium). The victory moved the Indians into a first-place tie with the Los Angeles Angels in the American League, with the idle Yankees trailing by a half game. The Tigers, who trailed 6-1 at one stage, moved into a 6-6 tie on Colavito’s homers. He led off the fourth with a homer, slammed a three-run homer in the fifth, and tied the score with a drive over the left-field fence in the seventh against Frank Funk for his twentieth of the season.

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Paul Newman poses with Cleveland Indians players Leon Wagner, Chuck Hinton, and Rocky Colavito in 1966.

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Rocky Colavito

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The Curse of Bryce Harper

Everyone knows the biggest All-Star of each major American sport. Every single sports media outlet likes to highlight these players and give them the primary focus that they deserve. There is this notorious angle that sports stars could be a prolific icon or role model, yet their flaws are magnified to a level of unnecessary proportion. There really is no exception to this rule because even some legends of the game have their own flaws. Bryce Harper is no exception to this rule, for he as well has received a great deal of criticism over his eight-year career. Over the time frame where he has gained the spotlight as one of the game's best players, his success has been questioned since his National League MVP 2015 season. The former Rookie of the Year has yet to remain consistent since the turn of the last decade, as he was the most anticipated player after claiming free agency and joining the Philadelphia Phillies. What was even more of a shocking result after last season is that his former team, the Washington Nationals, won their first franchise World Series without him. It was also put in speculation that the Nationals would not win a title without Harper, no one counted them as world champions at the start of the 2019 baseball season. However, that was not the first area of focus when the Nationals lifted the Commissioner’s Trophy last autumn...it was what Harper said when being introduced to his new team during Spring Training.

Harper was involved in one of the most dramatic free agencies in major-league baseball history. He was the number one name next to Manny Machado of the biggest free agents to sign for the 2019 baseball season. The biggest area of focus during his free agency was Harper’s agent Scott Boras. Boras is known for making some of the largest contract deals in baseball history, and this was one of the toughest off-seasons for him because Harper is his top client. After visiting with a handful of teams that tried pursuing Harper to join their team, he finally signed a contract to join the Phillies. He signed a contract for 13 years that is worth $330 million with no-trade clause or opt-out clause for Harper or the team. The contract was the highest paid contract for a baseball player until Mike Trout signed an extension with the Los Angeles Angels for $430 million later in the month. The attention towards Harper was brief until it was time for the Phillies press conference when they were announcing him as their outfielder.

Harper’s infamous quote when joining the Philadelphia Phillies

Harper was more than excited to join his team during his coming-out party for the Phillies at their Spring Training facility in Clearwater, Florida. When he was finally making a speech about joining the team, he uttered the phrase, "I can't wait to bring the title back to D.C." which was followed by a series of laughs from the press and sports broadcasters in the world of baseball. When nerves hit and the cameras rolled, Harper was a deer in headlights. After being with the Nationals for six seasons, having a focused mindset with one team can definitely make sense that a mistake was made. Even after making the remark when more interviews from the press followed, Harper poked fun at himself for the slip up in what he said; not to mention in the same interview (link will be here with exact clip) that the reality of being on a new team would not settle in until the end of the season in November. Little did Harper know that a surprise was waiting for him at the end of the 2019 campaign.

Harper and the Phillies had a sub-par season in their introductory year working together. The Phillies would break even in a .500 season going 81-81 and placing fourth in the National League East. The Atlanta Braves would go on to winning the division while the Nationals got hot in the last few weeks of the season and punched their tickets as a Wild Card team with a record of 93-69. An even a bigger shock to the baseball world was how much better the Nationals were playing without Harper, especially advancing past the first round in the playoffs. In his entire career with the Nationals, Harper never advanced past the division series in nineteen postseason games. When the 2019 season began, baseball media was counting on the Nationals to regress without Harper. It was even a more surprising finish to the sports world that the Nationals won their first World Series championship for the franchise…without Bryce Harper. In a bitter irony, Harper delivered on his promise with his slip up in what he said at the start of the season, he brought a title to D.C. on his new team.

The most infamous baseball curse of all time was the “Curse of the Great Bambino” when Babe Ruth was sold from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees.

The quote by Harper resurfaced on social media outlets everywhere as the Nationals celebrated their World Series title. The celebration of the Nationals would be more than insulting to Harper, but nothing was ever delivered on Harper's behalf being a former member of the team. With the remarks made by Harper echoing around the league during the offseason, no one ever considered the reality of what he had just created. With "the delivery" of the title to the Nationals in the same year that Harper signed with Phillies, it is possible to turn to the narrative that he created a new baseball curse. Playing into the folklore of baseball's past, curses in teams were something of the legend that needed more time to take effect over long periods of time. However, as big of an All-Star Harper is, it is possible to consider this situation as bad as the curse when Babe Ruth was sold from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. Surely the "Curse of the Great Bambino" did not take any effect until the Yankees and Ruth won their first title in 1923, a full three years after being sold from the Red Sox. The bigger difference is also that Ruth won three titles with the Red Sox before his great success on the Yankees. Assuming that Harper has not tapped into his best years on the Phillies and he has not made much of an impact since his MVP season in 2015, he is no Babe Ruth at all.

This also assuming entirely that the Philadelphia Phillies do not see any success with Harper for the remainder of his tenor and continue to do poorly after his service time is over with the club. The Phillies first addressed the issue of their results from the season prior, firing manager Gabe Kapler and replacing him with veteran manager Joe Girardi. Girardi had a successful career, winning World Series titles with the Yankees as both a player and a manager. After leaving the Yankees organization in 2017 and taking a three-year break with color commentating on baseball, he returned to the role of managing games. The Phillies mean business trying to turn the team around and make them into a playoff contender while Harper is on the team. The Phillies have only won two World Series titles in the history of the franchise, which came in 1980 and 2008. The team has not won a division title since 2011, and with the National League East being one of the most competitive divisions in baseball, the Phillies battle is looking uphill. Even with the team's farm system currently ranked 19th, the future is uncertain with how immediate this current Phillies roster can win a championship.

Rocky Colavito as a member of the Cleveland Indians. Colavito was traded from Cleveland to the Detroit Tigers which brought forth a curse and title drought to the Indians.

Baseball is great at channeling historical moments that makes "America's past time" hold more importance over the other popular sports in America. Sports superstitions and curses are features that have not been discussed in the game since the latest curse was broken when the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years; not to mention that the "Curse of the Billy Goat" kept them from being in the World Series when the unfortunate events occurred during the same time the Cubs were playing in the World Series in 1945. The only baseball curse that is still alive is the "Curse of Rocky Colavito" which suffers at the hands of the Cleveland Indians. The curse has yielded the Indians from winning a World Series, despite being in three of them since the origin of the curse in 1960. The result of the curse has left the Indians with the longest title drought in baseball after the Cubs beat them in the same World Series that relieved them of their curse.

Maybe considering that "The Harper Curse" is only starting to brew while his tenor with the Phillies is only beginning; or maybe it is too early to use Harper's words against him when he "predicted" a World Series championship for the Washington Nationals. There is hope that Harper does return to his vintage form and becomes the lethal five-tool player that the Phillies need to eventually deliver a championship to Philadelphia…or we can sit and wait, wondering if this "curse" will ever come into fruition sooner rather than later. Baseball needs a good narrative like this, and who else to deliver it than the phenome and prodigy that is Bryce Harper.

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Money ball

A lesson in baseball salaries:

A friend recently gave me some old copies of the Lansing State Journal his late mother left behind.

Having been a fan of Rocky Colavito, the dashing slugger who played left field for the Tigers in the early 1960s, my eye was naturally drawn to a piece in the sports pages of the Feb. 22, 1962 edition.

In ‘61, The Rock hit 45 homers, drove in 140 runs and hit .290. HIs pay: $35,000.

The article was, in part, about the Tigers’ resistance to Colavito’s demand for $50,000 for the coming season.

So, you’re saying, “Yeah, that sounds like a pittance for a run-producing machine like Rocky, but that $50,000 is in ‘62 dollars.”

Well, the Inflation Calculator says 50K in ‘62 dollars would equal about $402,000 in 2017.

Compare that to, say, Miguel Cabrera, who hit 38 homers, drove in 108 and batted .316  in 2016 and is earning $28 million this season.

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Cleveland baseball - Curse of Rocky Colavito.

In 1960, Cleveland GM Frank Lane trades fan favourite RF Rocky Colavito to the Tigers. Colavito was beloved in Cleveland and had been the AL home run champion in 1959. They would get Colavito back in 1965 but at the cost of two pitchers who would go on to have amazing careers not with Cleveland.

Colavito allegedly cursed the team (though he denies this) following the original trade.

Between 1960 and 1993, Cleveland didn't have a single where they came within 11 games of a division title. They have only been to three World Series since their last World Series win in 1948, losing all three.

Oooh, interesting, I didn’t know there was a baseball specific curse! Maybe that’s why LeBron breaking the Cavs/Cleveland sports curse in general couldn’t stop the 10th inning rain delay that absolutely cost the [formerly] Indians the World Series. I love the Cubs dearly and I love that 2016 team, but the rain delay won the series for them and that feels like some external force must have it out for Cleveland.

(Then again, maybe Cleveland just should have considered having someone as good as Jason Heyward at giving clubhouse speeches)

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10-Minute Mystery: The curse of Rocky Colavito

In 1960, the Cleveland Indians traded one of the most popular players in the team's history - record-setting slugger Rocky Colavito. Since the team hasn't won a world series in 73 years, superstitious fans and sports writers blame that ill-conceived trade as a sign that the sports gods are were not happy with that decision.

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Today In 1968: New York Yankees outfielder Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings in relief for the win vs. the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium! (color by BSmile)

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Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays, edited by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak, McFarland, 2020. Cover image by Shutterstock, info: mcfarlandbooks.com.

From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe’s Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks’ World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children.

Contents: Acknowledgments Foreword: The Truth of Horror: A Brief History of the Genre’s Nonfiction Works… and Why We Need Them – Lisa Morton Introduction – Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak     Section One: Horror Writers Who Forged New Ground “The mist of death is on me”: Ann Radcliffe’s Unexplained Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville – Elizabeth Bobbitt Jekyll and Hyde Everywhere: Inconsistency and Disparity in the Real World – Erica McCrystal ScatterGories: Class Upheaval, Social Chaos and the Horrors of Category Crisis in World War Z – J. Rocky Colavito     Section Two: Spotlighting Horror Writers Marjorie Bowen and the Third Fury – John C. Tibbetts “When the cage came up there was something crouched ­a-top of it”: The Haunted Tales of L.T.C. Rolt – Danny Rhodes Richard Laymon’s Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense and Negative Space – Gavin F. Hurley Four Quadrants of Success: The Metalinguistics of Author Protagonists in the Fiction of Stephen King – James Arthur Anderson     Section Three: Exploring Literary Theory in Horror “The symptoms of possession”: Gender, Power and Trauma in Late 20th Century Horror Novels – Bridget E. Keown “Not a Bedtime Story”: Investigating Textual Interactions Between the Horror Genre and Children’s Picture Books – Emily Anctil Synchronic Horror and the Dreaming: A Theory of Aboriginal Australian Horror and Monstrosity – Naomi Simone Borwein “Gelatinous green immensity”: Weird Fiction and the Grotesque Sublime – Johnny Murray     Section Four: Disease, Viruses and Death in Horror Night of the Living Dead, or Endgame: Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and Zombies (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Koji Suzuki’s Ring: A World Literary Perspective (Frazer Lee Mapping Digital ­Dis-Ease: Representations of Movement and Technology in Jim Sonzero’s Pulse and Stephen King’s Cell – Rahel Sixta Schmitz Afterword: Guardians of the Damned: Horror Scholarship and the Library – Becky Spratford About the Contributors Index

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Rocky Colavito: Until it starts losing

“You can’t tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.”

– Rocky Colavito.

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