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

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 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 ...

Tony Gwynn, the greatest player in San Diego Padres history and a Hall of Famer who studied the art of hitting with Ted Williams, died Monday morning after an extended battle with cancer.

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 ...

Gwynn finished his rookie year with a .289 batting average, going 55-for-190 (two hits shy of .300). It was the only season in his 20-year career that he failed to bat at least .309.

When it comes to the art of hitting, few names resonate as deeply as Tony Gwynn and Rod Carew. Both players are recognized as two of the purest hitters in Major League history. Join us as we ...

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 ...