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JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
Very cool.

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JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
What a great story. I love Gwynn even more now and Will Clark and Benito Santiago a bit less.

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JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
Awesome. Dare I say, he was this generation's version of Stan Musial.

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JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
That was fantastic. The Will Clark paragraph was both my favorite and least favorite part.

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Read it yesterday, and just spent another 20 minutes re-reading that story and the comments. I really didn't know much about Gwynn as a kid except that he was a great player out in San Diego. Had to hold back tears in a coffeeshop, what an amazing guy.

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Arizona Diamondbacks closer Addison Reed said he is quitting smokeless tobacco following the death of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn.

Reed, who played for Gwynn at San Diego State, threw away seven cans of smokeless tobacco from his locker, and another two from his car, before Saturday night's game against the San Francisco Giants, according to MLB.com.

"It's one of those things where I've done it for so long it's just become a habit, a really bad habit," Reed said Saturday. "It was something I always told myself I would quit, like next month, and the next thing you know it's been six or seven years."
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11119 ... wynn-death

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st.lewis11 wrote:
JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
Awesome. Dare I say, he was this generation's version of Stan Musial.
This is why baseball is still the best sport. There are no stories like this about NFL players.

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pioneer98 wrote:
st.lewis11 wrote:
JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
Awesome. Dare I say, he was this generation's version of Stan Musial.
This is why baseball is still the best sport. There are no stories like this about NFL players.
Except for Mean Joe Greene and the jersey.

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Jmodene wrote:
pioneer98 wrote:
st.lewis11 wrote:
JL21 wrote:I was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043
Awesome. Dare I say, he was this generation's version of Stan Musial.
This is why baseball is still the best sport. There are no stories like this about NFL players.
Except for Mean Joe Greene and the jersey.
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