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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proud! That's how I feel being a Minnesotan. Rod Carew [July 18] is one of the reasons...
Your article on Rod Carew kept asserting that he had never received the recognition he deserved. For eleven years we fans have been putting him in the All-Stars games' starting lineups. Millions recognize him as the finest hitter since Clemente; it's the baseball writers who have neglected...
Death Threats. They were married in October 1970, but not until Carew had received a number of death threats. Rod and Marilynn did not let the racism of the fans inhibit their lives, and, characteristically, they did not complain about the insults to Twins officials and teammates. (Carew had long before learned to live with prejudice. Even today, he sometimes hears a fan shouting racial slurs from the safety of the stands.) The Panamanian was swept into Marilynn's family-her mother has lived with them for four years. Marriage and children-Charryse, 3½, and Stephanie, 2-have...
...Rod Who? If he 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...
...Rod 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...