Rod Carew is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, second baseman and coach. He played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels and was elected to the All-Star game every season except his last. In 1991, Carew was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. While Carew was never a home run threat (hitting fewer than 100 career home runs), he made a career out of being a consistent contact hitter. He threw right-handed and batted left-handed. Carew was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, his first year of eligibility. In 1999, he ranked #61 on The Sporting News'' list of 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was nominated as a finalist for Major League Baseball's All-Century Team. Carew has also been inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame. His number 29 was retired by the Angels in 1986 and by the Twins in 1987, and was the 4th inductee into the Angels' Hall of Fame in 1991. Carew was hired as the Angels hitting coach in 1991 and served in a similar capacity with the Milwaukee Brewers. Carew has also worked at various times as a minor league and spring training hitting and base running coach for the Twins and serves as an international youth baseball instructor for Major League Baseball. Carew's youngest daughter from his first marriage, Michelle, was diagnosed with leukemia in September 1995 and her rare Panamanian-Jewish heritage lowered the possibility of finding a matching donor for a bone marrow transplant. In spite of Carew's pleas for those of similar ethnic background to come forward, no matching donor was found and Michelle died in April 1996 at the age of 18. A statue of her was installed in Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
