Rod Carew, former Angels star and Baseball Hall of Famer, celebrates after becoming a U.S. citizen at the age of 78 at the USCIS field office in Santa Ana on Friday.

Devon Carew was by his father’s side the entire weekend in Cooperstown. As Rod renewed acquaintances with his fellow Hall of Famers, he would ask them what they thought about the state of the game.

A former Times columnist was struck by Rod Carew’s encounters with the police decades ago while playing with the Twins, and his outlook now on the legacy of the former owner Calvin Griffith.

ENCINO >> It all happened in what seemed like an instant.As soon as the Carew and Reuland families met, they instantly felt like they had known each other for a lifetime.After the two familie… ...

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 ...

Rod Carew, a former 18-time All-Star infielder for the Twins and Angels, advocated for Rose to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Getty Images ...

But Carew’s wife, Rhonda, and Reuland’s mother, Mary, figured out that the former NFL player, who died at age 29, gave new life to the 71-year-old baseball Hall of Famer. Carew had a heart ...

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After wearing 29 on his back throughout his long Hall of Fame baseball career, Rod Carew is grateful to now have the heart of a 29-year-old, thanks to an organ donation from NFL player Konrad Reuland.

Rod Carew, former Angels star and Baseball Hall of Famer, celebrates after becoming a U.S. citizen at the age of 78 at the USCIS field office in Santa Ana on Friday.