RIP Tony. A great ball player. Shame he dipped that snuff.
Condolences to family and friends of Tony Gwynn. R.I.P., sir. Thanks.
This San Diegan had a great deal of admiration for Mr. Gwynn. He will be missed.
Loyalty, excellence, and hard work. That’s not fair. /s
I used to be such a HUGE baseball fan;
it is hard to believe that it has been 20 years
since I quit watching the millionaire cry babies.
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“The 232-day Major League Baseball strike,
which lasted from August 12, 1994, to April 2, 1995,
led to the cancellation of 900 games overall,
and the entire 1994 postseason and World Series
due to a labor dispute.”
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I never watched another game after that.
One day Gwynn came around and watched him hit for a while, then came over and gave him some pointers. Gwynn said that when he was practicing in the batting cage he always envisioned hitting a pitch right back up the middle through the pitcher's legs. He said this helped him develop superb bat control by working his way around the diamond in small increments from that starting point.
He then proceeded to demonstrate his point by stepping up to the plate and swinging at about a dozen pitches from the machine in the batting cage.
He hit every one of them right back toward the machine ... and through the small hole in the cage where the machine's pitches were coming from.
Unbelievable.
we've lost a good one....
I loved his hick accent; and from SoCal it was really strange that he sounded like a country bumkin; that said, I loved hearing him when he commentated. I also remember the battles for “batting king” he and Boggs had...kinda silent competition even though in different leagues. I really started rooting for Gwynn when Boggs’ affair started being known. Boy he could hit.
The guy had a tremendous work ethic.
Tony was what used to be said with honor of highly talented athletes who gave more than jut their skill to a game - a sportsman.
What a great tribute to Tony.
FYI: I graduated from SDSU in 1978 and since I’m the same age as Bruce, we may have even been classmates.
RIP to a fine man and great baseball player. Privileged to see him play. RDH in San Diego.
One of the best hitters of all time and a real good guy. God bless him and his family.
Great athlete and a fine person.
“The world lost not only one of the greatest baseball players of all-time this week, but one of the finest representatives for baseball, sports and humans of all kinds. The death of this wonderful man at the early age of 54-years-old was a loss for all of us.”
This sums it up with nothing added needed. I’m a lifelong Cardinals fan, but was also a fan of Tony Gwynn. RIP Tony
“.. he came to the Aztecs as a highly-heralded basketball point guard and did not even play baseball at SDSU his first year.”
This reminds me of another athlete. He came to the University of Cincinnati with a dual athletic scholarship, basketball and badminton (early 1950’s).
He ended up on the baseball team, joined MLB and became a Hall of Famer.
Guy by the name of Sandy Koufax.