But Carew has improved to a point where he was willing to open up about his heart attack and recovery for the first time and to become an advocate for heart health, much as he was for young cancer ...

Rod Carew welcomed the Angels sale on Twitter; it’s a long, bitter story Angels’ Rod Carew acknowledges the cheers of the fans after his 3000th major league hit on Aug. 5, 1985 at Angel ...

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

Former Angels star and Hall of Famer Rod Carew, who was born in Panama, celebrates after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become a U.S. Citizen in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.

Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew received a heart and kidney from an organ donor in December 2016. Carew knew the donor was a 29-year-old, a coincidence considering that was the number he wore ...

We'll hear all about those battles, both on the field and off, on the next installment of MLB Network Presents titled "Rod Carew: The Fight of His Life." The program will premiere Tuesday, Feb. 16 ...

Rhonda Carew and her husband Rod Carew adjacent to a Donate Life Float exhibit at Pasadena Hilton in Pasadena Friday December 29, 2017. Transplant recipient Carew will be among the floatÕs 17 riders.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew received a new heart and kidney from the late NFL player Konrad Reuland in what is believed to be the first such transplant ...

Rod Carew likely doesn’t remember the first time he interacted with Konrad Reuland. It was the late 1990s and Reuland was a sixth-grader in Southern California. Reuland told his mother one day ...

Carew wrote: “In 1977, my M.V.P. year, I made $170,000. When the season was over, Calvin called me into his office, thanked me for the great season, told me that I had made the team a lot of ...

Former Angels star and Hall of Famer Rod Carew, who was born in Panama, celebrates after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become a U.S. Citizen in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.

Carew was put on the heart transplant list Nov. 18, at which point Rod and Rhonda began sleeping with their cell phones nestled between them, convinced the call would come in the middle of the night.