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Article: SAN DIEGO'S GO-GETTER READY TO MAKE HIS 14TH APPEARANCE AS AN ALL-STAR, TONY GWYNN WON'T ACT HIS AGE.(Special Pullouts)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1998
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Byline: Tony Jackson Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Qualcomm Stadium was empty, except for the two young boys in the front row behind first base who somehow had managed to sneak in three hours before the gates were to open and the booming voice emanating from the home dugout below that had captured their attention.
They couldn't see their hero, but they could hear him and they hung on his every word.
When Tony Gwynn talks, San Diego listens.
In a city where major league baseball takes a back seat to just about everything up to and including fish tacos, Gwynn ironically has become its most enduring symbol.