Tony Gwynn Jr. Stats, Fantasy & News. Batting Finders & Advanced StatsMore Tony Gwynn Pages at Sports ReferenceTony was a pure joy to watch hit a baseball! 3,108 AND COUNTING: Baseball's active hit leader, Gwynn enters 2001 with 3,108 career hits, 17th-most in major league history...he is within 176 hits of the all-time Top 10...Tony became the 22nd player in history to collect 3,000 hits with a first-inning single to right-center field on a 1-2 pitch from Montreal's Dan Smith August 6, 1999 at Olympic Stadium...he finished the milestone night 4-for-5. 1. His enthusiasm was infectious and his dedication second to none. Born: May 9, 1960 in Los Angeles, CA us Died: June 16, 2014 in Poway, CA Buried: Dearborn Memorial Park, Poway, CA . The Tony Gwynn World Series stats seen below include his World Series year-by-year hitting stats, World Series fielding stats, and World Series pitching stats (where applicable). Draft: Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 3rd round of the 1981 MLB June Amateur Draft from San Diego State University (San Diego, CA). Finished 4th in MLB in pinch AVG (.400, 8-20)...Had 6 OF assists...Appeared in 53 games in CF (43 GS), 38 in LF (13 GS) and 3 in RF (1 GS)...Was designated for assignment on 8/6 and outrighted to Albuquerque on 8/8.Anthony Keith Gwynn, Jr… Married Alyse Mallek (11/18/06); has three daughters: Makayla (10/9/07), Jordan (3/6/09) and Leighton (1/15/11)… 2000 graduate of Poway High School (CA), where he played baseball and basketball… Attended San Diego State University… Is the son of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and nephew of Padres director of player personnel and former Dodger Chris Gwynn… Is the godfather of Prince Fielder's son, Jadyn, and Fielder is godfather of Makayla… Hobbies: Listening to music and watching the Lakers… Signed by: Bruce Seid.Spent the season with Albuquerque (AAA)...Finished 9th in the Pacific Coast League in OBP (.393)...Batted .390 (30-77), 4 2B, 2 3B, HR, 9 RBI in 21 June games...Hit .493 (33-67) in 18 day games...Was on the DL, 6/26-7/17 (right great toe fracture); rehabbed with the Arizona League Dodgers, 7/11-17.
Anthony Keith (Tony) Gwynn...Tony and his wife Alicia (Cureton) have a son, Anthony II (10/4/82) and a daughter, Anisha Nicole (8/8/85)...Tony graduated from Polytechnic High School in Long Beach in 1977 before attending San Diego State, where he played both baseball and basketball...a point guard, Gwynn still holds the all-time Aztecs assist record and was a 10th-round selection of the NBA's San Diego Clippers (210th pick overall) on the same day he was drafted by the Padres...Tony was an All-Western Athletic Conference guard in 1981, selected in the same All-Conference backcourt as Brigham Young's Danny Ainge, who went on to star in the NBA and formerly coached the Phoenix Suns...Tony remains the only athlete in WAC history to be recognized as an All Conference performer in 2 sports...in 1997, the new state-of-the-art SDSU baseball stadium, which was built through funding from Padres Chairman John Moores, was dedicated in Tony's name...Tony Gwynn Field was named the 5th-best stadium in college baseball by Baseball America in 1998...Tony's brother Chris was an All-American baseball player at San Diego State and a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic baseball team...Chris played parts of 10 seasons in the major leagues for the Dodgers, Royals and Padres and is now a Padres scout...brother Charles, a baseball star at Cal State-Los Angeles, is a teacher in South Central Los Angeles. That even late in his career he was willing to learn a thing or two from Ted Williams was amazing!