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"Rod is resting in recovery. We ask that all of Twins
Territory and the entire baseball community keep Rod, his wife
Rhonda, and the entire Carew family in your thoughts and prayers
as Rod recovers," the statement read. Carew, an 18-time All-Star
who won seven American League batting titles during a 19-year
career, suffered a major heart attack while playing golf on
Sept. 20, 2015. He underwent six hours of surgery and was close
to death before being stabilized for a few days but then
suffered heart failure on the left side of his heart. Since
then, Carew has relied on his blood flow being regulated by a
ventricular assist device which doctors surgically implanted
while working on getting healthy enough for a transplant. The
American League's most valuable player in 1977 when he batted
.388 for the Twins, Carew ended his career with 3,053 hits and a
.328 batting average. He was inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame in 1991, and he was healthy enough to attend
induction weekend last July.
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in St. Augustine, Florida;
Editing by Andrew Both)
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