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Baseball has been blessed with many good players but few greats. Now another hitter is about to enter baseball's pantheon of heroes: Rodney Cline Carew, the first baseman of the Minnesota Twins and the first player to have a shot at finishing the season at .400 since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. Our cover story this week examines the still little-known Panamanian-born player-his consistent ability, his playing style, his personality-as well as the sport's oldtime hitters and the many refinements in the fine art of hitting a baseball...
...Carew is an open, engaging and articulate man who just happens to be the best hitter in the game," says Reporter-Researcher Paul Witteman, who suggested this cover story. Witteman spent last week with Carew-visiting the player and his family in Golden Valley, Minn., traveling with the Twins, and watching seven games in Minneapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee. But it was not all work. When Ted Williams was expected to stop by for a visit, Witteman called Carew on the phone, disguised his voice, and said, "This is Ted Williams. If you bat .400 this year, I'll break...
...consider Rodney Cline Carew, the best damn hitter in baseball. He is the only man of his generation with the gifts-and the hard-won mastery of the art of hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been...
Whatever the outcome in October, Carew's quest for the elusive .400 is a welcome and joyous event for baseball, helping to turn the sport away from its fractious present and back to its roots. After a generation of musical franchises, a decade of labor unrest in the locker room, a time of free agents and frostbitten World Series in mid-October, baseball sorely needs to get down to basics. Carew is the right man at the right time, a modern version of Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler pushing the ball past grasping...
Campbell allowed one run on a Rod Carew sacrifice fly, but squelched the rally after that on a fielder's choice and a strikeout...