Rocky Colavito 1962 Official Baseball Annual Magazine Cover
Description
A color slide of the cover of the 1962 edition of Fawcett Publications Official Baseball Annual. Rocky Colavito is pictured twice in a Detroit Tigers road uniform. In the main photograph, Colavito stands in the right-handed batter's box and is shifting his weight forward as he starts to swing the baseball bat he is holding. An unknown catcher is squatting behind home plate with his right side visible. The photograph is from above on the first base side of the field near home plate. The second photograph is an insert and shows him from the shoulders up. He is turning to his left, making the side of his face visible. The caption underneath reads, "The tense world of Rocky Colavito." Five articles mentioned on the cover are "Mantle and Maris rate each other", "Special! Lowdown on the Giant troublemakers", "What they're whispering about Stengel", "Exclusive! How the Reds stole the pennant", and "Expert forecast of all the teams".
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1962–1962