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 ...

Back on Aug. 5, 1999, after the Cardinals' Mark McGwire hit his 500th career home run, reporters gathered around Tony Gwynn's locker in the San Diego Padres clubhouse in Busch Stadium. They wondered ...

— -- 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 ...

Thursday is the 16th anniversary of the start of the 1994 baseball strike. Since this is a baseball blog, we are legally required to write something about it. Once again, our topic list is the same as ...

Baseball legend Tony Gwynn was remembered Monday by Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig as "one of the most accomplished hitters that our game has ever known" The former San Diego Padres ...

1908 — John Lush threw a six-inning, rain-shortened no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. It was Lush’s second no-hitter against the Dodgers. 1933 — Pinky Higgins ...

Tony Gwynn has three rookie cards: 1983 Donruss, 1983 Fleer, and 1983 Topps. There's something different about the Topps card, with Gwynn running out of the batter's box, presumably after a hit. It's ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — There were two certainties about Tony Gwynn: He could hit a baseball like few other major league baseball players and he was going to laugh. Gwynn was a craftsman at the plate, whose ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Tony Gwynn was a member of the baseball Hall of Fame and won eight batting, beating Stan Musial’s seven. The two greats became ...