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Article: Always a Padre: Gwynn set to retire after season; Pursuit: Legend may take coaching job at San Diego State
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2001
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Tony Gwynn, an eight-time NL batting champion
and member of the 3,000-hit club, will retire at the end of this
season, his 20th with the San Diego Padres.
"Today I have to make it official - This is my last year playing
with the Padres," Gwynn said Thursday at a news conference.
"But I'm not dying today," he said with a laugh.
"It's time to start thinking about what I'm going to do next and
everybody knows what I'm looking at," he said, referring to his
interest in coaching baseball at his alma mater, San Diego State.
Gwynn, arguably the best pure hitter of his generation, has
struggled to get back into the Padres' lineup because of a strained
right hamstring that's ...