RIP Tony Gwynn
 

Lost his battle with cancer at the age of 54.

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One of the best hitters in baseball history. 3,141 career hits. .338 career batting average. Eight time Batting Title Winner.

The stat that boggles my mind is in 10,232 career plate appearances he struck out 434 times.

You'll be missed, Tony.

Baseball bores me to death. About as exciting as... Fishing.

I liked how he stuck with his team the whole way despite a handful of bad seasons. So rare these days, everyone seems to jump at the chance to go on to a 'winner' now. Really good guy as well. Too young.

You bore us to death daily...

Sad. Way too young. On top of being a stellar athlete, he was a class act. After playing, he forego a lucrative coaching career in the big leagues to work with younger athletes at his alma mater SDSU.

Gfy cancer.

i have his baseball cards still\

RIP

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One of the all time greats and as stated, a pure class act. No one else like him in the game.

People who find baseball boring tend to have short attention spans. Can't handle a sport that doesn't have things happening in 3-4 second spurts. Baseball is a like chess match. A lot of move/counter move strategy.

Way too young to go!!

R.I.P Tony

good ball player

R.I.P. Tony

Used to love this mother fucker back in the day playing Micro League Baseball on the Commodore 64 - always seemed to hit a homer in game. :1orglaugh

RIP, Tony

Such a fucking shame.

R.I.P. Tony!

R.I.P. Tony !

That says more about you than it does about baseball.

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Sorry, just couldn't get into baseball. It was "stand around and wait for something to happen". Basketball is much more about constant action. Football at least is a little bit better - at lest everyone does something instead of standing there waiting for the ball to come to them.

Fishing too. Put a line in the water and wait.... I went deep sea fishing once and that was kind of neat, but only for about twenty minutes - once you figured out that there was ten zillion fish under the boat and everyone was pulling one in every ten seconds, just... Not much fun after that.

wow that is unfortunate, very young

sports are dumb and boring, whats your point... this is an RIP thread

also the point of fishing (and a lot of other sports) is actually DRINKING, not doing stuff

That really sucks. Anyone going that young is terrible.

A real bummer. Been a Padres fan a long time and always enjoyed when they had him come in as a guest to call games. He was doing good things for San Diego State University baseball too. Mr. Padres will be missed in SD for sure.