Rod Carew undergoing a heart transplant today ... "He can wait until the last instant to commit his wristy, inside-out swing," Boswell wrote. "He's snake-quick, because he uses little body ...

20, Rod Carew hit his drive off the first tee precisely ... His first book, Road Swing, published in 1998, was named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by Publishers Weekly and one of the ...

Earlier this season, Miami Marlins second baseman Luis Arraez referred to Rod Carew as being “like my ... Everybody’s trying to swing up and hit home runs. And Luis was, at times he would ...

As he settled into the batter`s box one night during the 1977 season, Rod Carew noticed ... Then I swing at it.” Preferring to flick his bat as if were a baton, Carew hit 112 homers without ...

Rod Carew doesn’t look like an ex-ballplayer ... A: We’ve got some kids in camp that can swing the bat, and I think what we’re trying to do at this stage is fine-tune them, get them ready ...

If you’re a baseball fan in Southern California, you know about Rod Carew, ex-California Angel; ex-Minnesota Twin, because he’s one of the best hitters to ever so much as glance at a bat.

Rod Carew! If you know, you know. If you don’t: Carew is one of baseball’s greatest hitters, a Hall of Famer and lifetime .328 hitter who made 18 All Star teams in a 19-year career with the ...

Hall of Famer Rod Carew underwent a successful heart and kidney transplant in Los Angeles in December. Carew, now 71, had been using a mechanical device to pump blood following a massive heart ...