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Word: spodafino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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...only way Cleveland's Rocky Colavito has ever played baseball since he discovered the game existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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