Rod Carew: Baseball's Best Hitter. July 18, 1977.
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Tubbs Baseball Blog: Rod Carew's Seven Batting Titles and the Players He Denied the Honor by Annually Capturing the Crown
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Day 29 of (at least) 30 baseball book reviews for spring/summer 2020: Now batting, No. 29, Rod Carew … he connects, from the heart – Tom Hoffarth's The Drill: More Farther Off the Wall
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Thurman Munson: The Yankees' Eternal, Most-cherished Captain
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