The Curse of Rocky Colavito ― A Loving Look at a Thirty-Year Slump

A Cleveland sports classic, now back in print in quality trade paperback.No sports fans suffered more miserable teams for more seasons than Indians fans from of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Terry Pluto takes a fond and often humorous look back at "the bad old days" of the Tribe and finds plenty of great stories for fans to commiserate with. The definitive book about the Indians of that generation, and a great piece of sports history writing.

Terry Pluto has been a sports columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1985. He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation’s top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is an eight-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of 23 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), False Start: How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail, and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 100 sports books of all time. He was called “Perhaps the best American writer of sports books,” by the Chicago Tribune in 1997. He lives with his wife, Roberta, in Akron, Ohio.