This is speaking to the type of guy he was.
This is before I was at State, I was young, like 9 or 10 years old, playing for a travel baseball team and Bruce Bochy’s son, Brett, was on the team with me.
Bruce took us into Qualcomm to take a tour and when we walked by the underground batting cage we saw Tony Gwynn hitting.
He was getting some cage work in, hitting off of the tee, and we are just sitting there star-struck.
He saw us kids and proceeded to stop, mid-workout, and said, “Hey you guys coming in here to hit?