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They dated for a while-Marilynn ducking to the floorboards every time she saw a red car that resembled her father's. "It was humiliating for Rod and finally I said, 'Listen, this has got to stop. It's been nice but let's call it a day.' " They stayed apart for several months, but when spring training began, Carew placed long long-distance calls, reaffirming his affection. "It was nice before," says Marilynn, "but by now it was love, already." When the season started, they confronted her family at Passover Seder. Her nieces...
...balls for batting-practice pitchers-a job usually left to utility players and aging coaches. Once when he failed to run out a long foul ball that the wind suddenly blew fair, he fined himself for not hustling. Says Twins Manager Gene Mauch: "As impressed as I am with Rod Carew the hitter, Rod Carew the baseball player, I am more impressed with Rod Carew...
...hitting some shots. I mean really hitting the ball." He blasted so many balls into the bleachers, in fact, that Twins Manager Sam Mele-fearing spying Yankee eyes-ordered him out of the batting cage: "Get him out of here before somebody sees the kid!" One month later, Rod signed with the Twins for a $5,000 bonus...
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...