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...Carew has also settled into the Twin Cities. Last spring he won the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the major league player who has done distinguished community service. The honor is bestowed for a player's public acts-heading fund drives and the like. But private and unpublicized deeds most distinguish Carew's style. He regularly travels to the Mayo Clinic to visit patients. Once he had a run-in with a traffic cop who pointedly called him "boy" as he wrote up the ticket. The policeman later had the temerity to ask Carew to visit...
About the only thing that gnaws at Carew is his contractual problems with the tightfisted Twins. In 1975, the team turned down his request for a salary of $140,000 a year-modest by big league standards for a man of his skills-and the case went to arbitration. During the negotiations, Owner Griffith told the arbitrator that Carew was not worth a high salary because he was just a singles hitter. Never mind that he had hit .364; there were not enough home runs (3). The arbitrator naively accepted the club's reasoning and fixed Carew...
...doubtful that the Twins will decide to pay Carew what he is worth during the next contract talks after the 1978 season. Although he would prefer to play in Minneapolis, Carew is resigned to the possibility of ending up on another team. Salaries are a standard by which players are judged, and he wants the financial recognition, if not the bright lights that his status deserves. "I wouldn't want to go to New York. It's a zoo. If I move, I'd like to go to Seattle or Toronto, to new clubs that are building...
...keeps up his current pace, plenty of teams will surely come bidding for Carew; his assault on the .400 mark is bringing him, at last, the attention he deserves. The family telephone number-unlisted to begin with-must be changed once a month. A persistent local reporter, not believing that Carew was away from his home, camped out on the doorstep until Marilynn called the police to drive him off. An ovation from home-town fans greets Carew's every trip to the plate. Photographers and reporters dog him at home and on the road. Still, he answers each...
...Carew in this fine summer. To be a hitter so confident that you turn down offers from teammates and coaches to steal signs and telegraph you the next pitch. "It doesn't matter what the pitch is-I'll get my cut at it." To know that if you do hit .400, the season of '77 will be remembered as the one that belonged to Rod Carew. And to know that, .400 season or not, your place in the history of your sport is already secure. "He doesn't have to prove anything," says Manager Mauch...