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After breaking in with the Indians briefly in 1955 , in 1958 Colavito Batted .303 with 41 home runs and 113 runs batted in. One year later he became the first Indian to have two 40-HR seasons; his total of 42 tied him with Killebrew for the league lead, and was one short of Al Rosen 's club record. On June 10 , 1959 he smashed Four Homers in consecutive At Bat s in a single game. Colavito would hit 30-plus homers seven times, establishing himself as a major power hitter and excellent fielder with a strong arm despite being Flat-footed . Just before the 1960 season, Indians general manager Frank Lane traded Colavito, the defending AL home run champion, to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn , who had won the previous season's batting average title. The trade proved to be a good one for the Tigers but a terrible one for the Indians, whose fans lost their most popular player and best hitter. In 1965, with Gabe Paul running the team, Colavito – by now with the Kansas City Athletics – was brought back; but to obtain the slugger in a three-team deal, Paul had to send the Chicago White Sox pitcher Tommy John , who would play until 1989 and win 286 games after the trade, and Tommie Agee , who won the American League Rookie Of The Year award in 1966 with the White Sox, then became the New York Mets ' top hitter in 1969 as they won their first pennant. Colavito later played for the White Sox (1967) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1968). In his final season of 1968 , with his final team, the New York Yankees , he became the last person with more than 350 career homers to be credited as the Winning Pitcher in a game. In his 1,841-game career, Colavito batted .266 with 374 HRs, 1,159 RBI, 971 Runs Scored , 1,730 Hits , 283 Doubles and 21 Triples . As a right fielder, he recorded 3223 Putout s, 123 Assists , 26 Double Play s, and committed only 70 errors in 3516 total chances for a .980 fielding percentage. In 1994 , Terry Pluto , who covered the Indians for the '' Cleveland Plain Dealer '' in the 1980s and became the top sports columnist for the '' Akron Beacon Journal '', published '' The Curse Of Rocky Colavito '', a book that tried to explain why the Indians had not come within even 11 games of first place since 1959. His explanation was that the trade of Colavito in 1960 sent the team on a path to mediocrity that lasted more than three decades, also suggesting that the trade to bring Colavito back was as bad as the one that sent him away. When the Indians finally won their first pennant in 41 years in 1995 , Pluto wrote a sequel, ''Burying the Curse''. The Indians also won the pennant in 1997 , but lost the World Series both times, the second time after needing just two more outs in Game 7 to win. Insisting that the curse was still in effect, Pluto wrote ''Our Tribe'', a history of the team, in 1999 . Through the 2005 season, the Indians have not won another pennant, and have not won the World Series since 1948 . HIGHLIGHTS
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