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Rod Carew
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Rod Carew is one of the former baseball players who hold the honor of being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. Carew was born on October 1, 1945, in Gatun, Canal Zone. He was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 11, 1967 with the Minnesota Twins baseball team. Nicknamed as Sir Rodney, he batted with left hand style and listed a height of 6 feet with a weight of 182 pounds. He played his professional game on 11 April, 1967 and last game on 5 September, 1985.
Carew was a second baseman and on February 3, 1979, he was traded to the Angels for Ken Landreaux, Dave Engle, Brad Havens, and Paul Hartzell. Carew, despite sitting out more than six weeks with a thumb injury that season, was instrumental in the Angels' drive to their first division title. He chopped and bunted his way to 3,053 career hits. His seven batting titles remained unsurpassed for several years. He used a variety of relaxed, crouched batting stances to hit over 0.300 in 15 consecutive seasons with the Twins and Angels, achieving a 0.328 lifetime average.
Carew was honored as an American League Rookie of the Year in 1967, won the league MVP, Most Valuable Player, and 10 years later and was named to 18 straight All Star teams. Carew also won seven American League batting championships, and won them by consistently larger margins than anyone except Rogers Hornsby. In his MVP 1977 season he compiled 50 points higher than the next best average in Major League baseball. Carew never had any equal as a fielder, base runner and batsman, combined with heady work of a quality.
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