As we look ahead to what is likely to be the strangest season in memory—if not ever—we can anticipate many reasons to remember 2020 baseball. Chief among them may be the chance for some heavily-asterisked bits of history.
In 1994, when the Major League Baseball season was cut short by a strike (which managed to do something all previous world wars were unable to do: cancel the World Series), Tony Gwynn very nearly made things quite awkward. When the season came to a close on September 14, Tony Gwynn and the Padres had played 117 of their potential 162 games, with the legendary stick man hitting .