page_title: Curse of Rocky Colavito
hierarchical_section_title: Curse of Rocky Colavito
caption_attribution_description: English: Cleveland Indians outfielder en:Rocky Colavito in a 1959 issue of Baseball Digest.
context_page_description: The Curse of Rocky Colavito is a phenomenon that supposedly prevents the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball franchise from winning, be it the World Series, the American League pennant, reaching postseason play, or even getting into a pennant race. Its origin is traced back to the unpopular trade of right fielder Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn in 1960. It was not claimed that Colavito placed the curse, and he has denied doing so. It is one of several curses believed to have stricken the city of Cleveland's major sports franchises for decades.
  The Indians won the American League championship in 1995, 1997, and 2016, but lost all three World Series.
context_section_description: The Curse of Rocky Colavito is a phenomenon that supposedly prevents the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise from winning, be it the World Series, the American League (AL) pennant, reaching postseason play, or even getting into a pennant race.  Its origin is traced back to the unpopular trade of right fielder Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn in 1960. It was not claimed that Colavito placed the curse, and he has denied doing so. It is one of several curses believed to have stricken the city of Cleveland's major sports franchises for decades.
  The Indians won the American League championship in 1995, 1997, and 2016, but lost all three World Series.
caption: Rocky Colavito, the curse's namesake, was a popular Cleveland player when he was traded in 1960. Colavito did not place the curse, but the Indians have not won the World Series since the controversial trade.
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