Tony Gwynn: The Soul of the Franchise No San Diego story is complete without Tony Gwynn. No honest baseball story is, either. Gwynn spent his entire 20-year career with the Padres — from 1982 to 2001 — and became one of the greatest pure hitters the sport has ever produced. Eight batting titles. A career average of .338. A man who studied hitting the way scientists study physics, who kept meticulous video records of his at-bats before video analysis was standard practice, who understood the strike zone so completely that...
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