My all time favorite player ⭐️ I’m now 58 grew up with this classic era ❤️

Most underrated ballplayer ever

A TRULY GREAT PURE HITTER!!!!!!!!!!!! I am from Minnesota and born in 1968>>> Got to watch Rod Carew play at the Old Met Stadium in Bloomington as a KID>>> WHAT A AWESOME TREAT THAT WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@neonsparky

Жыл бұрын

Born in 69 and raised in Edina. Got to see Rodney quite a few times at the old Met. He was awesome.

Great player and hitter! Rod Carew is a legend.

Happy Birthday to Rodney Cline Carew.10-1-45.Panama

I know George Brett batted 390 and Tony Gwynn batted 394 but both had less than 500 at bats respectively. Rod Carew batted 388 in 616 at bats! 239 hits!

@depaola63

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent point ❤️⭐️

I was at the game June 26, 1977. I was 8 years old. I remember the announcement that Rod had gone over .400 and the whole place giving him a standing ovation... and I remember Glenn Adams's grand slam.... a great childhood memory!

@plebxxxx

3 жыл бұрын

I was there on ROD CAREW DAY in Minn after he retired; all my early memories are a blur but he was my baseball hero.

Rod Carew, Ichiro Suzuki & Tony Gwynn. The 3 greatest hitters I have ever seen. And *no one else* comes even close.

@edreed5571

5 жыл бұрын

Where were you when Honus Wagner played? Under a rock?

@sychophantt

4 жыл бұрын

Wade Boggs?

@doglips1958

4 жыл бұрын

Ty Cobb,Ted Williams???

@timothycrombie3730

4 жыл бұрын

@@sychophantt I agree. Boggs is a very similar hitter. George Brett not quite as good a pure hitter but he was a better all around player than Carew, Ichiro, Gwynn and Boggs.

@civlyzed

4 жыл бұрын

@@edreed5571 I remember fondly as a young kid watching Wagner play in his last season, 1917. Although he only hit .265 in and played just 74 games, he did manage 24 RBI and 5 stolen bases. Yes, I'm 113 years old!

ROD CAREW PRIDE OF PANAMÁ!!!!

Happy about the comments. Some people don't understand how great he was. A phenomenal player. Can't believe he didn't get 100 percent of hof vote.

@why-why-whywhywhy

5 жыл бұрын

Phillip Beckman - Well that is because singles & doubles have never been as valued & or “sexy” as the “almighty” home run. And with the baseball(s) these days being wound tighter than a clam with lockjaw (regardless of what that bull ‘bleepin’ circus clown Rod Manfred says) sadly that will forever be the case from this day forward, as well. Hence that is why *great, great hitters* like Mr. Carew/Ichiro/P. Rose/T. Gwynn to name a few, will *never, ever* get the proper due & respect they so very much deserve.

@dzanier

2 жыл бұрын

Almost nobody used to. Babe Ruth didn’t. It was ridiculous.

@plbeckman

2 жыл бұрын

@@dzanier incredible point. They did vote against Babe Ruth as well. Nolan Ryan, even ripken Jr. It is beyond ridiculous. Shameful even. And they even voted against Tony Gywnn. Imagine that. Gywnn rarely struck out. Rarely. And still voted against him. Smh.

@dzanier

2 жыл бұрын

@@plbeckman I have no explanation for it. At least not a logical one.

@plbeckman

2 жыл бұрын

@@dzanier that's the thing. I can't think of a logic point either. The people voting are under the influence is all I can come up with.

Ted Williams said the same thing to Tony Gwynn. He thought hitters with that kind of bat control and eye should pull the ball more and look for pitches to drive. As much respect as I had for Ted Williams, these guys did just fine with the approach they had.

@jaywalter5491

Ай бұрын

I agree with ted....if Ted went up and swang for contact, never trying to hit homers....he woulda hit.600....and drove in 60 rbis

@williamchiafos3889

18 күн бұрын

To each his own. Ted was a legend but Carew had tougher competition ​@@jaywalter5491

I remember in 1983 with the Angels, he was hitting over .430 into June and still over .400 a week past the All-Star Break. He hit close to .470 for an entire month. He was already in his late 30's then. Ted Williams came within 5 hits of batting .400 in 1957 at the age of 38, and I thought for four months that Carew would do it.

I loved rod Carew so much ❤️ I can still remember pulling his baseball card out of a wax pack. Looking at the back and couldn’t believe his batting averages … Before Don Mattingly showed up on my hometown team…. It was rod carew for me !!

He hits like crazy off me in MLB the show online lol that reminded when I had been told awhile back about how incredible Rod Carew played I’m happy I ended up watching this video after I took my time to look at his stats when I read his numbers for 1977 I knew instantly he won MVP that year before even checking that year’s ballot. Hit machine true beast at the plate wish I could’ve seen that MVP season. Found out he’s also a national hero in Panama great player and a even better person.

My favorite player to watch when I was a kid and my all time favorite hitter. He was great

@marcclement7396

9 ай бұрын

I was a young little league player and learned the drag bunt from him. Could get on base 90% of the time.

I've been a Twins fan for 50 years. Still have to say that the 1977 Twins were my very favorite, even more than the 1987 or 1991 World Champions. That 1977 Twins team was just such a great collection of players. Carew, Bostock, Hisle, Wynegar, Ford, and all the others. They played at my favorite park ever (Metropolitan Stadium) and the uniforms, which some people likened to softball uniforms, were C-O-O-L!!

@dzanier

2 жыл бұрын

They were an excellent hitting team. I believe they led the Majors in runs scored.

@neonsparky

Жыл бұрын

That was a great team to watch.

Rod was Rad!!

I met him at my school and got a autograph

@TrueBlueYou

3 жыл бұрын

He taught me how to hit correctly. I met him at his camp in Cali.

3 жыл бұрын

And you sold it on Ebay.

Love him as a player and more so as a man.

@dzanier

2 жыл бұрын

That’s understandable. He’s an exceptional person.

GOAT

So many young kids could learn from his style. Not a lot of power, nothing fancy, but could put the ball anywhere he wanted.

What a cool guy. Legend.

Happy 75th Birthday Rod Carew

Always a class act !

for Rod 👍👍👍👍

Only professional ball player in the history of the game who can truly be referred to as 🌋THE HUMAN BATTING MACHINE.

Legend

I went to my one game for the year in Toronto in 1984 hoping to see Rod and Reggie Jackson. It was getaway day and I got Daryl Sconiers and Brian Downing...

One of the best pure hitters of all time.

Carew's BABIP in 1977 was an astounding .409! When he talks near the end of the video about the defense getting to balls in September that were finding the holes in July...he's simply describing his BABIP coming back down to earth. Nonetheless, a season for the ages...

Today, stadiums are empty. I can sit behind the plate at a Cubs game any time I want. It's always a good seat I can get. It's good and bad at the same time.

So sick!

A batter going 1for4,then 2for4 equals 388,what Carew batted in 1977.

I saw a video from that year, hitting a line-drive just over the third baseman’s head for a homer. It got out of there in a split second.

Kirby puckett was pretty great too

I read his book on hitting (when I was young). Helped me mentally in other sports.

A gentlemen and a pure line drive hitter that is now extinct. Most players now are HR, low BA hitters now.

Twins Manager Frank Quilincy moved Rod Carew from 2B to 1B at the end of the 1975 season. Carew wasn’t a good 2B but he was an outstanding at 1B.

Hometown hero

1 of my favs ever. I no longer watch. 77 season was better than bretts 80. 150 more ab

He’s why I wear 29

@italianwaterice9594

3 жыл бұрын

yea at your house

If only pro athletes today had the attitude he expresses at 01:47.

Rod Carew was 100X the man and hitter Reggie was.

I was 9

+100

It was shirt day at the met

Batsman Supreme ! I'll take Senor Octubre 's season though !

At the game , guy climbed the foul ball pole

No ofon77

Shame he was stuck on incredibly poor teams