26CornerBlitz Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 @BreakingNews Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn dies at 54, the San Diego Padres confirm - @NBCSports
Pete Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Great player. And Tony seemed like one of the good guys and a great ambassador for baseball
26CornerBlitz Posted June 16, 2014 Author Posted June 16, 2014 @MLB_PR Statement from Commissioner Selig on the passing of Tony Gwynn:
HamSandwhich Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Very sad to hear of his passing. Classy guy, cancer sucks!!!
PromoTheRobot Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Cancer's a B word. Cancer happens enough without inviting it over by dipping.
Steve O Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Poster child for the cliche "the more I practice, the luckier I get" A rookie once told him he wished he could have his work ethic, to which Tony replied he wouldn't get it by wishing for it. RIP
Mark Vader Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Great player. And Tony seemed like one of the good guys and a great ambassador for baseball Definitely one of the good guys. Sad news.....RIP
26CornerBlitz Posted June 16, 2014 Author Posted June 16, 2014 Cancer happens enough without inviting it over by dipping. The smokeless tobacco problem is a pervasive part of the culture at every level of baseball.
KD in CA Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Wow, that just sucks. One of my all time favorite players and the best hitter I've ever seen. One time at Shea he's leading off the first as I'm walking in and hits a triple before I even reached my seat.
The Poojer Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 is this type of cancer similar to what JK12 has? this really really sucks
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Wow, that just sucks. One of my all time favorite players and the best hitter I've ever seen. I share these sentiments 100%. With Zimmer and Bob Welch passing recently as well, that makes our three.
shrader Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 I would have guessed he was even younger than 54. It feels like he was still playing not too long ago.
The Poojer Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Tony Gwynn hit safely in 75.3% of total games played. •15-time All-Star •8-time NL batting champion •Only 1 career game with 3+ strikeouts
Dr. Fong Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 When I was a kid my first little league team was the Padres. So I decided the Padres would be my MLB team. Tony Gwynn was my favorite player. Sad to see that he has left us. What a life he lived though.
OGTEleven Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) He is my all time favorite player. He took the hardest task in sports and made it look so easy. He was always looking for ways to improve, even after establishing himself as an all time great. He was so consistent and confident, and never seemed arrogant. I feel privileged just to have been able to watch his whole career. His lifetime average facing Greg Maddux was .415 and Maddux never struck him out. The Post’s Tom Boswell called Gwynn “one of the sweetest, nicest, smartest players I ever met in baseball,” in his weekly chat today. “He was always grinning, joking and learning. No better student of hitting since Ted Williams. (Some others also [were] great at it, but none better than Gwynn.)” Boswell recalled pitcher Greg Maddux telling him how difficult it was to assess the speed of a pitch and likened it to the difficulty of telling how fast a car was going. “If the car was alone on the road,” Boswell wrote on his chat, “‘the human eye can’t do it.’ And, Maddux said, ‘No hitter can tell the difference in speed of different pitches, except that &^%$#@! * Tony Gwynn.” Strasburg flashed potential in high school, but poor physical condition and an uneven temper kept colleges away. Two schools offered him a scholarship. He turned down Yale to play for his idol at his hometown school. Without Gwynn, there would be no Stephen Strasburg as the baseball world knows him. “A father figure,” Strasburg has called Gwynn. In two seasons at SDSU, Strasburg morphed from an overlooked, undrafted high school player to the most anticipated pitching prospect ever. Strasburg credited Gwynn for molding him into a professional competitor and for protecting his arm. Many college coaches ride their ace pitchers to the detriment of their arms. Gwynn never pushed Strasburg for too many pitches, never endangered his career. Link is to a cool audio. http://blogs.marketw...oogle_news_blog Edited June 16, 2014 by OGTEleven
26CornerBlitz Posted June 16, 2014 Author Posted June 16, 2014 @MLBONFOX Tony Gwynn never struck out more than 40 times in a season. Gwynn's incredible career in baseball, by the numbers http://foxs.pt/1iBN8XX @BNHarrington Inside Pitch (w/audio) -- Tony Gwynn talks hitting and Yankee Stadium w/@TBNSully & @BNHarrington http://bit.ly/1pBtcMg
eball Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Could there possibly be any baseball fan on the planet who didn't admire and respect Gwynn? Such a rare soul. RIP.
CowgirlsFan Posted June 16, 2014 Posted June 16, 2014 Sad. MLB has lost another legend. Prayers to the family. Hope Kirby Puckett and him are catching up around the batting cage.
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