Rod Carew got a new heart, kidney from a former Baltimore Ravens tight end
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Date: 2017-04-14

Rod Carew got a new heart, kidney from a former Baltimore Ravens tight end

On Dec. 12, former Baltimore Ravens tight end Konrad Reuland died far too young at age 29. He had suffered a brain aneurysm two weeks earlier and never recovered, but because his other organs had not been affected, his family donated them to someone who might be sick enough to use them.

Three days after Reuland’s death, baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew received a new heart and kidney after more than a year of ill health following a heart attack. All he and his family initially knew was that the organs came from a 29-year-old male donor who had died at UCLA Medical Center, and all Reuland’s family knew was that Konrad’s heart and left kidney had gone to a 71-year-old man in Southern California.