Rod Carew

Birth Name:

Rodney Cline Carew

Birth Place:

Gatun, Panama

Profession

Actor

Made an appeal to a joint session of Congress in 1998 that resulted in $50,000 being appropriated to the National Institutes of Health for pediatric cancer research
Was only the third player to have his uniform number retired by two teams
Was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, only the 22nd player to be voted in on his first ballot
On the day he graduated from high school, he signed with the Minnesota Twins
Started out playing baseball with a broomstick and bottle caps as a child
Was born on a train in the Canal Zone
When he was 14 years old, he moved to New York with his family
Best known as a first baseman for the California Angels
Had a very successful run batting for the Minnesota Twins from 1967 to 1978
After retiring as a professional baseball player, he opened The Rod Carew Baseball School in Placentia, Calif․, to teach children about the sport

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