The legend of tony gwynn part 2 on how almost never played baseball
After about a week or two he's got just As many RBI as I do you know he's just Just as many hits as I I mean it's just Crazy how good he Is from there there was no turning back And over the next two years he played Both Sports at San Diego State the agreement was that Tony Couldn't play baseball until the Basketball season was over he would play His last basketball game and then come Out to baseball the next day you come Out from basketball You're running all year and then you Come out here and you start playing Games right away and you're playing all The time and you're missing a lot of School it's rough but you know you just If you want to do it you really have to Concentrate it at what you're doing in 1981 all Gwen's work and all his talent Caught the eye of the San Diego Padres New general manager Jack mcken we always Had an annual exhibition game with the Padres and the Aztecs day before opening Day I'm sitting up in the box with the Athletic director Tony comes up hits a Double watch him run the Bases comes up the next time hits a Triple I said who the hell is this guy He said That's Tony Gwyn I said where's He been I've seen you play 15 games I Haven't seen this guy he said he just Came out last week I said this is the
Best guy on that field that was Including major leaders as well sure Enough on June 9th 1981 Tony Gwyn was Drafted by San Diego twice as both a Baseball and basketball player big day In the gwy household that day he got Drafted by Padres then the Clippers who Were in San Diego Then I mean it was the Story here that he got drafted by both Local teams not being a big guy he chose Baseball what would have been Interesting if Tony was you know a 66 Guard would he have gone with basketball His first love we'll never know that the Same week he got drafted we got married He was just so happy and I remember him Saying I'm going to work hard I'm going To work hard I'm probably going to play About 5 years and then I'll go on to do Something else he never thought he would Be that Good but as soon as he turned Pro
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