Tony Gwynn was the human made up Sportscenter fact

[BucciMane]

One of the best threads I've seen in this section.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Thats the craziest one for me.

Not only was he actually good but you dont often find players who played Basketball and Baseball in college. Football and baseball yes, football and basketball yes, but not basketball and baseball.

Danny Ainge

 

[BucciMane]

Alicia Gwynn said her husband spent a sleepless night before the 2007 Hall of Fame voting results were announced.




“I probably won’t make the first cut, Alicia,” he said. “Because I’m a Punch and Judy hitter. No Punch and Judy hitter has ever gone into the Hall (on the first ballot).”

“He said he thought he had a 50/50 chance,” Alicia said.

That's an issue I have with the baseball HOF. How on earth was he not a UNANIMOUS first ballot selection?!

There is no legitimate reason to not have voted for him.

 

[MikelArteta]

1-2 hitting that slider how

 

[mvp_status]

Bro was giving Barry Bonds hitting tips back in the day

 

[NYC Rebel]

1-2 hitting that slider how

I’ll tell you how. When you want to hit the opposite field and you recognize the pitch going outside, you let the bat go slightly with your top hand during the course of your swing because that’s the hand that forces you to pull a ball. By letting go with that top hand a little early the bottom hand allows the bat to stay in the strike zone a little longer, allowing you to spank the ball to the opposite field. That was my opposite field hitting approach.

It was one thing for me to that shyt in HS, but its another thing for this dude to do that versus hall of fame fukking pitchers

 

[BucciMane]

I’ll tell you how. When you want to hit the opposite field and you recognize the pitch going outside, you let the bat go slightly with your top hand during the course of your swing because that’s the hand that forces you to pull a ball. By letting go with that top hand a little early the bottom hand the bat flatter and stays in the strike zone longer allowing you to spank the ball to the opposite field. It was one thing for me to that shyt in HS, but its another thing for this dude to do that versus hall of fame fukking pitchers

It's incredible.

Honestly, I haven't seen a thread about one player where I've been more blown away with certain statistics and accomplishments than this thread. It's Honestly hard to comprehend how unbelievable some of his feats are..

 

[BucciMane]

He had more career doubles than strikeouts

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[VegetasHairline]

 

[BucciMane]

I feel like every time I see a Tony Gwynn statistic that I need to go and check to make sure it's true. Some of these statistics and feats don't even make sense.

 

[Bishop_BP_Jakes]

Bruh, I need to sit down
That's nonsense lol

 

[Astroslik]

Wtf

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Thats the craziest one for me.

Not only was he actually good but you dont often find players who played Basketball and Baseball in college. Football and baseball yes, football and basketball yes, but not basketball and baseball.

Danny Ainge was the NCAA National Basketball Player of the Year while simultaneously playing 2nd base for the Blue Jays for three seasons.

Also the only person in history to be 1st-team All-American in baseball, basketball, AND football. Worked out with the BYU football team a little while he was there and the wide receiver coach said he could have started for them on the spot. That was back when Jim McMahon was their quarterback, they were an elite top-15 team and had the top-ranked offense in the nation.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That shyt doesn't make no kind of sense whatsoever.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Still mad an older kid in my neighborhood tricked me into trading my Gwynn rookie card for the Billy Ripkin "fukk face" upper deck card.

I dunno man I think you won that trade