Wednesday, March 11, 2009

March 11

Rocky in Spring Training, 1964
Hall-of-Famer Rocky Colavito played briefly for the Kansas City A's in the twilight of his career. Here, he bats against the Houston Colt .45s (later the Astros) in a spring training game.

Date: March, 1964
Location: Daytona, Florida
By: LH

4 comments:

Adam said...

Wow! Choking up. What a concept.

Sherwood Harrington said...

... and one of the all-time great power hitters, no less.

Gloria said...

Hi ~ Great photo. Came across this post while doing a Colavito search. You refer to Rocky as a "Hall-of-Famer" ... the sad truth is he is NOT in the HOF but ought to be! A group of Rocky fans have a petition to the HOF at www.rockycolavitofans.com. Check it out. Any chance we can use this photo on the site? With due credit to you, of course. Thanks.

Sherwood Harrington said...

Gloria, I'm stunned! I obviously just assumed that he was in the Hall -- what a glaring omission, and thank you for setting me straight about it.

Yes, of course you can use this photo on the site. Since this photo was taken by my Dad, Lynn Harrington, an appropriate credit would be "Photo by Lynn Harrington, photo restoration by Sherwood Harrington."

Good luck to you... and to Rocky.