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 ...

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 ...

No, the five greatest single-game hitting performances in Padres history don't belong exclusively to Tony Gwynn (though you could certainly make a case to include about 15 different Gwynn games on ...

Tony Gwynn leaned over to his wife, Alicia, from his hospital bed, and whispered in her ear. “Don’t let the people forget about me," Gwynn told Alicia, his wife of 33 years. Alicia, who had known Tony ...

Tony Gwynn Jr. remembers hearing as a youngster — when he still went by the name Anthony — about people naming their children after his father. “The first few times I heard it as a young kid I was ...

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 ...

The term “batting champion” evokes images of some of the greatest players in history peppering base hits around the field: Ted Williams launching majestic blasts to the Fenway Park triangle, Rod Carew ...