Word: carew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CAREW...
...home run. With that an annoyed patron released a live piglet onto the field. But then Lefthander May, who was born in Coffeyville, Kans., and once went to a psychiatrist to cure his pitching woes, wound up and delivered a high, tight "moving" fastball to the Twins' Rod Carew, who was born in Panama on a train. Carew, who hits a baseball more consistently, though not farther, than any man alive, swung ineffectually and grounded out, and the day soon righted itself for the home team...
...quick but unbrilliant career with Pawtucket, is having a sensational, sensational year. He is leading the league in RBIs and leading the majors in run production--RBIs plus runs, minus the homers, which are duplicates. He is fourth in homers and number two in batting average, behind Rod Carew--which is like running second to Hermes. He handles centerfield like a fish in water and he runs the bases like a pro. In late June he knocked in ten runs in one outing against Detroit, and made headlines on every sports page in the country. Earlier in the year...
...MINNESOTA--The Twins came on strong at the end of last season, but even a fourth batting crown for Rod Carew couldn't save them...
...Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, another Catholic church named for St. Joseph learned that one of its parishioners, lately forced into bankruptcy, was about to lose his house. Remembering a device used during the Depression, Father John Carew, 70, announced formation of a Save-a-Home Fund. When he made his appeal, Carew said last week, churchgoers "tore the place down with their clapping." The collection produced $5,000-enough to stave off the foreclosure and to help others that the recession threatens to turn out of house and home...