Rod Carew
Hi everyone! Just a quick note to say the first Three Strikes…yer OUT! podcast is now published and available on apple podcasts in iTunes. Since it is All-Star week, the first episode details the baseball career of the great Minnesota Twin and California Angel hitting superstar, and 18 time All Star, Rod Carew! Give it a listen and see what you think! Thanks a lot!
Career Highlights:
- He was the rookie-of-the-year in 1967.
- He made the American League All Star team an incredible 18 seasons in a row!
- He won the American League batting championship seven times, including four years in a row from 1972 through 1975.
- He won the American League MVP award in 1977, making a serious run at the fabled .400 batting avg for a season.
- He is one of the very few players (32 currently) who have made the 3,000 hit club.
List of sources:
- SABR.org (Society for American Baseball Research)
- baseball-reference.com (THE resource for stats on all MLB players!)
- baseballhall.org (MLB Hall of Fame website)
- Wikipedia
- Carew, Rod; Berkow, Ira (2010). Carew. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-7009-3
Special Credit goes to YouTuber MrRunnerholic for the great cover of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame!” and the permission to use it on my podcast. Man, I love it! Thank you so much!