19: The Life and Career of Tony Gwynn

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  @Rollin_Stoney · 5 years ago

  All I can do is cry watching this. Growing up a padre fan didn't have much, but God damn it we had Tony.

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• AG

  @Agent_00Kilo · 6 years ago

  Another Tony Gwynn fact:  He once beat the Devil in a fiddle off before playing against the Atlanta Braves.

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• BR

  @bryantsteury8910 · 6 years ago

  Jesus Christ, .473 for a full month. Also, I like that a 3.5 WAR .313 1988 was a complete crap year for him lol. Guys would kill for that

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• RO

  @ronanmcintyre2 · 6 years ago

  Being born in San Diego I’ve heard so many stories about Tony’s insane hitting skill. Never get tired of hearing about him.

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• CI

  @cinch1619 · 6 years ago

  I can distinctly remember that All Star game moment to honor the legends Cal Ripken Jr and &quot;Mr. Padre&quot; Tony Gwynn.<br>Also, way to make a lifelong baseball fan shed more tears.

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• SA

  @samuelaskew4816 · 6 years ago

  as someone from san diego that was beautiful we miss him everyday there isn’t someone here in san diego who is a longtime baseball fan who hadn’t met tony he literally always came out and met people, i always say his autographs aren’t worth anything because he literally signed so much for everyone here and always held hitting lessons for little leagues, there wasn’t a thing he didn’t do, was surprised you didn’t talk about how when a game ended because of a rain delay he told a teammate before the next day when the game would resume that he’d get a fastball outside and he would hit it through to left field for a rbi single, sure enough next day he gets his fastball for an rbi single into left field that’s how good he was

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• SM

  @SmittyCBaseball · 6 years ago

  RIP Should have batted 400 in 1994

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• NO

  @notsamhoward · 6 years ago

  One of my favourite players of all time, incredible man

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• DA

  @danielparker8189 · 6 years ago

  You don’t have to be a Padres fan to be a fan of “Mr. Padre,” but you’re not a baseball fan at all if you don’t respect this legend.

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• PA

  @paulsletten8985 · 6 years ago

  That Beckett ad was the most devastating fatality I&apos;ve ever seen. <br><br>Four cents...poor bip roberts

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• TH

  @TheBFT2012 · 6 years ago

  Truly an amazing mini documentary. Thank you for that. Tony is the first player I remember hearing about. I was 9 years old in 1999, I was watching SportsCenter specifically for NBA news, as I always did. I remembered hearing about Tony when he got his 3000th hit. I didn&apos;t realize how important that number was at that age but I knew it had to be something big. There was some news about Cal Ripkin that day too and I remembered that they were something special, even though I didn&apos;t know anything about baseball at the time. and then they both became first ballot HoFers the same year. I cried throughout most of this video. Well made.

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• BT

  @BTL812 · 6 years ago

  NOW IM IN MY FEELS. Why you do this to me Vin? WHY VIN WHY?! 😅😭

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