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Major League Baseball will soon name an all-time Latino Legends Team based on fan balloting. One of the game's greatest Latino players, Panamanian-born batting champ ROD CAREW, was a TIME cover subject...
...Rod Carew is the least-known star in baseball's galaxy. He works his wonders in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, cities owned--in the national mind, if not in reality--by Fran Tarkenton, Mary Tyler Moore and blizzards. Carew's feats have gone virtually unnoticed by the national press ... Even when it comes, recognition has sometimes been careless and absentminded, casually askew. In Carew's playroom is a 2-ft.-high trophy--the Joe Cronin Award--all polished wood and gleaming brass. The American League presented it to the great lefthanded hitter in recognition of his fourth...
...worms and a lazy creek may be enough to get some people hooked on fishing, but serious anglers need more of a challenge. Fishermen are taking off to the globe's remotest rivers for rod-and-reel battles that send the adrenaline rushing as fast as the water they're wading in. But wilderness trips are not for amateurs: "You need to go with an experienced outfit?some of these fish bite back hard," says Charles Jardine, a coach for England's national fly-fishing teams. Here are three of the most pristine?and challenging?locales...
...ROD RAWSON Miami...
...PINK GEAR: A FISHING FIRST? FisherGirl, a year-old Canadian company, won a new-product award at the American Sportfishing Association trade show last month for its $49 Mermaid. It's designed for women by women, with a small handle and a light rod. If pink isn't your thing, it also comes in blue, green, purple and striped models...