Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn was, by all accounts, a good guy. Baseball writers liked him.
We all liked him because he was a ferocious hitter, maybe the best of his generation, yet rocked a dad bod. And did so with a smile.
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So when Gwynn died and especially considering how he died, after a battle with salivary gland cancer that took his smile for a while and his ability to walk and eventually his life at 54, we wanted to find somebody anybody to blame.