Beloved Cleveland slugger Rocky Colavito has died

The intrigue: After he was traded to the Detroit Tigers in 1960, the ball club, then known as the Indians, experienced a miserable 30-year slump known to this day as "The Curse of Rocky Colavito."

Catch up quick: Colavito was born in the Bronx in 1933 and dropped out of high school at age 16 to play baseball.

• He was inducted into the Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame in 2006.
• A statue of Colavito in Little Italy's Tony Brush Park was erected in 2021.