With a .405 batting average on Aug. 15, 1941, Ted Williams had every right to feel confident. “Sure I will,” the Red Sox ...

I think, more than any skill other than striking a golf ball, hitting is about intrinsic gifts mixed with the intangible imperfect stuff of an artist. Either you have it or you don't. Tony Gwynn ...

Tony Gwynn's career was defined by remarkable statistical snapshots – eight batting titles, seven hits championships, 10 times the most difficult man in the league to strike out. But a day in ...

What Rogers Hornsby and Honus Wagner were to their generation, that's what the late, great Tony Gwynn was to his generation. He didn't play baseball in an age when men routinely hit .424 or ...

Twenty years since Tony Gwynn took his final swing for the Padres in October 2001, when a crowd of 60,103 in Mission Valley saw the 41-year-old ground out to shortstop, it’s a different ballgame.

Tony Gwynn, “Mr. Padre,” is a San Diego legend. Known as one of the greatest and purest hitters in MLB history, he left an indisputable legacy with a career .338 batting average, over 3,100 hits and ...

Tony Gwynn slugged his way to the hearts of Padres fans. The Padres hall-of-fame outfielder is not considered a slugger in a ...

353 that season and was in the middle of a run in which he won the batting title in four straight seasons. "Tony Gwynn hit a ball to left field that Ryan (Klesko) tracked down and got in ...

I remember in San Diego with Tony Gwynn, Tony always had his little secret hitting things where he would close the door where you really couldn't actually see what he was doing, and I happened to ...

San Diego’s Tony Gwynn notches a four-hit game to reach the 3,000-hit plateau as the Padres beat the Expos, 12-10, at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. And nobody should have been surprised that ...

Now let’s also add in 8 straight batting titles and being a 15-time ... In the 1980s one of the emerging Hall of Famers was Tony Gwynn. While he didn’t have the flashiest style or the biggest ...