| rdfs:comment | - Rod Carew is a former major league baseball player and Hall of Fame member.
- Rodney „Rod“ Cline Carew (* 1. Oktober 1945 in Gatun, Panama) ist ein ehemaliger Baseballspieler aus Panama in der Major League Baseball.
- Rod Carew was born to a Panamanian mother on a train in the town of Gatún, which, at that time, was in the Panama Canal Zone. The train was racially segregated; white passengers were given the better forward cars, while non-whites, like Carew's mother, were forced to ride in the rearward cars. When she went into labor, a Jewish physician traveling on the train, Dr. Rodney Cline, delivered the baby, who was named Rodney Cline Carew in appreciation.
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| abstract | - Rod Carew is a former major league baseball player and Hall of Fame member.
- Rod Carew was born to a Panamanian mother on a train in the town of Gatún, which, at that time, was in the Panama Canal Zone. The train was racially segregated; white passengers were given the better forward cars, while non-whites, like Carew's mother, were forced to ride in the rearward cars. When she went into labor, a Jewish physician traveling on the train, Dr. Rodney Cline, delivered the baby, who was named Rodney Cline Carew in appreciation. At age 14, the Carews emigrated to the United States. He lived in the Washington Heights section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City. Rod Carew attended George Washington High School, which current Los Angeles Dodgers star left fielder Manny Ramirez attended. He signed an amateur free agent contract with the Minnesota Twins a day after graduating. Three years later, he was called up and became a teammate of first baseman Harmon Killebrew. One of his teammates was a pitcher named Ron Kline.
- Rodney „Rod“ Cline Carew (* 1. Oktober 1945 in Gatun, Panama) ist ein ehemaliger Baseballspieler aus Panama in der Major League Baseball.
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