Baseball hall-of-famer Rod Carew is set to visit Nicaragua next month to show Nica ballplayers a thing or two after a stellar 18-year career in the majors, the Managua daily La Prensa reports.

The Panama-born, New York-raised former infielder will give a week of workshops and conferences starting April 21. His stop-offs will include the American College and the Denis Martínez National Stadium in Managua and Roberto Clemente Stadium in Masaya in a visit organized by the U.S. Embassy and Major League Baseball.

Born Rodney Cline Carew, he honed a relaxed crouched stance and batted his way to seven titles, surpassed only by Ty Cobb, Tony Gwynn and Honus Wagner, according to the Web site for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (which inducted him 1991).

Carew, 62, won Rookie of the Year when he started out with the Minnesota Twins in 1967 and won the American League Most Valuable Player award 10 years later. Debuting at second base, he went on to switch to first base in 1975. Four years later he was traded to the California Angels, where he played until 1985. Carew had a lifetime batting average of .325.

Apart from his fame in the United States, Carew is a national hero in his home country of Panama, which renamed its national stadium Rod Carew Stadium in 2004.