UPDATE: Rod came through 13 hours of surgery in good shape! PTL! Please continue to pray for complete healing!

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I grew up watching Hall-of-Famer…..Rod Carew with the Minnesota Twins……please keep him in your prayers……he has such a love for people….I remember the year he stole home 7 times!!!!!!!!! Rod is undergoing a heart transplant and kidney transplant right now, we are told. We are praying for complete healing for Rod, in Jesus name, Amen!

In baseball’s earlier eras, even husky sluggers stole home. Lou Gehrig did it 15 timesin his Yankee career, Babe Ruth 10 times. Twenty years ago Rod Carew, then with the Minnesota Twins, did it seven times, tying the major league season record that Pete Reiser of the Brooklyn Dodgers established in 1946.Apr 16, 1989

Sports of The Times – Why Nobody Steals Home Anymore – NYTimes …

www.nytimes.com/1989/…/sports-of-the-times-why-nobody-stealshome-anymore.html

Rod Carew’s Seven Steals of Home in 1969 | Misc. Baseball

https://miscbaseball.wordpress.com/2010/…/rodcarews-seven-steals-of-home-in-1969…

Feb 22, 2010 – In his autobiography, Carew, Rod Carew talks about how he came to be … Billy worked with me for hours on stealing home. … Ideally, the batter is right-handed, and he ought to be trying to protect the plate and obscure the catcher’s vision a little bit. … When Spider went into his windmill act again, I took off.

Former Angels great Rod Carew set for heart transplant – The Orange …

www.ocregister.com/articles/heart-738516-attack-thursday.html

20 hours ago – Rod Carew, a former Angels star who is in baseball’s Hall of Fame, was reportedly set to undergo a heart transplant on Thursday. Carew …

Rod Carew will have heart transplant today | MLB.com

m.mlb.com/news/article/211226018/rodcarew-will-have-hearttransplant-today/

Nearly 15 months after suffering a heart attack near his Southern California home, Hall of Famer Rod Carew is scheduled to receive a heart transplant today, …

Hall of Famer Rod Carew to have heart, kidney transplant – Chicago …

www.chicagotribune.com/…/ct-rodcarewheart-kidney-transplant-20161215-story.ht…

19 hours ago – Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew is preparing to receive a new heart and undergo a kidney transplant.

Hall of Famer Rod Carew matched with donor, will receive heart …

www.cbssports.com/…/hall-of-famer-rodcarew-matched-with-donor-will-receive-hea

18 hours ago – Fifteen months after suffering a massive heart attack, Hall of Famer Rod Carew is set to receive a heart transplant in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Hall of Famer Rod Carew getting a heart transplant today

www.mercurynews.com/…/hall-of-famer-rodcarew-getting-hearttransplant-today/

20 hours ago – Hall of Fame infielder Rod Carew is getting a heart transplant Thursday, a year after a massive heart attack. By John Hickey …

Former Twins great Rod Carew has heart, kidney transplant

www.startribune.com/former-twins-great-rodcarew-set…hearttransplant/406835086/

22 hours ago – Rod Carew, 71, has been on a transplant waiting list for more than a year after a massiveheart attack in September 2015.

Minnesota Twins great Rod Carew reportedly getting heart transplant

www.foxsports.com/…/minnesota-twins-great-rodcarew-reportedly-getting-hearttran

22 hours ago – The American Heart Association announced Thursday that former Minnesota Twins starRod Carew is set to receive a heart transplant, more …

Hall of Famer Rod Carew set for heart transplant Thursday

www.sportingnews.com/…/rodcarewhearttransplant…/1g2grnh05lhoj10o683q2b0…

20 hours ago – Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew was scheduled to undergo a heart transplantThursday, ending a months-long wait for a suitable donor.

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