In 1972, Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins, won the American League batting title with a .318 average and no home runs. This was the first time since 1918, when Zack Wheat won the National League batting championship, that a player won the batting title with no home runs.

Carew had 170 hits in 535 at-bats with 21 doubles and six triples in 1972.

Carew played 19 Major League seasons with the Twins and California Angels as a second baseman and first baseman and appeared in 18 consecutive All-Star Games. He had a career batting average of .328, with 3,053 career hits, 445 doubles, 112 triples and 92 home runs. In 1969, he stole home eight times, missing Ty Cobb's record by one.

He never played in a World Series.

In 2016, Major League Baseball renamed the American League batting championship award after him.

Carew was enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.

In one of the oddities of the sport, Carew notched his 3,000th hit on the same day (Aug. 4, 1985) future Hall of Famer pitcher Tom Seaver won his 300th game. Both players were considered two of the top 10 baseball players of their era.

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