HOF Tony Gwynn has died of cancer at 54 years. The former Padres outfielder had been fighting
cancer for since 2010. He has been baseball coach of San Diego State....
One of my favorite players to watch growing up. RIP
Damn, Welch and Gwynn in the same week.
Two guys I ing loved from the pre-steroid era back when baseball was by far my #1 sport
Tony was such a pure hitter..that swing......
. My elation over the Spurs championship and Kawhi's FMVP was brought down quickly.
Last edited by Aztecfan03; 06-16-2014 at 11:14 AM.
Sad to hear.... he was always one of my favorites growing up....
Interesting fact about Gwynn: he also played basketball at SDSU and the Clippers actually drafted him in the 10th round (the draft went for longer than two rounds) in 1981....
He was awesome to watch when he came up to Dodger Stadium. Just a great all around dude and it is sad that he is gone that young.
Covered his and Cal's HOF induction in 2007 back when i was a reporter...one of the nicest people I've ever met.
A very sad day. Tony Gwynn seemed a consummate professional -- insanely good at his craft, revered in his community, respected by his peers, and regarded as a good man all the way around. 54 is too young for anyone. Surely, a reminder to make every one of your days count.
Great for his era, but guys like Gwynn and Boggs who made a living banging out singles are pretty overrated imho.
Yeah banging singles over and over getting on base is overrated compared to these big swingers and their hundreds
of strikeouts per season.......
It is crazy that Tony's highest strikeouts in one season was 40 or less and some mlb players have had that in one month.
Adam Dunn vs Tony Gwynn
RIP Mr. Padre.
The point of the game is to get people across home plate, not step on 1st.
Depends. If you're Tony Gwynn and you have the ability to make contact on every at-bat, if you have great speed (which he did early in his career), if you play in a big park like Jack Murphy where it isn't necessarily easy to hit a home run and if you play in a league that puts a premium on station-to-station baseball (which the NL did during the '80s), you help your team more by consistently getting your bat on the ball and getting on base than you would by swinging from the heels and striking out 100 times a year.
YMMV, of course. Guys with speed that strike out a lot drive me crazy. That's why I never really liked Grady Sizemore when he played for the Indians.
Chewing tobacco is a of a drug
Steeping on first means more to a team than stepping back to the bench and taking a seat.....You can't get to
home plate without touching first base......
RIP Tony. One of my favorite baseball players ever.
5 x Gold Glove Winner
Led the Padres to 2 World Series appearances, running into two juggernauts
rofl best hitter since ted williams.
ted williams did alot more than hit infield singles.
Since not better--man, you're a mess. The dude was the closest to .400 since The Splendid Splinter. Hit in a pitcher's park and struck out <500 times in his total career. Too much emphasis is put on the long ball and not enough on the skill of the hitter. It is unanimous in how great he was so you're opinion fails to really matter.
ANd he was on a hot streak when the '94 season ended because of the strike. He had a good chance of hitting over .400 if the season wasn't cut short.
Tony's 1997 season @ 37 years old
.372 BA
.957 OPS
17 HRs
119 RBIs
220 Hits
49 Doubles
12 SBs
592 AB / 28 SOs
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