Tony Gwynn News

Thursday afternoons at PETCO Park will be a blast from the past for Padres fans.

There are someA rumblings that the Padres are talking with Coco Crisp about a one-year deal worth between $3MM and $4MM. This just makes too much sense.

Chris Gwynn, 45, the younger brother of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn , goes from being a professional scout to director of player personnel.

In 1961, a college student named Hal Richman started selling a dice game that purported to simulate baseball.

Former San Diego State ace Stephen Strasburg donated $141,000 to the Aztecs' baseball program on Friday.

Eastlake Tavern + Bowl presents: Toy Drive + Bowl 2009 featuring Tony Gwynn Jr. of the San Diego Padres and his youth baseball camp Bring an unwrapped toy to enter a raffle hosted by the South Bay Family YMCA .

The San Diego Padres have promoted Chris Gwynn to director of player personnel and hired former big leaguer Dave Roberts as special assistant to baseball operations.

Longtime baseball coaches Dick Yates, Irv Brown, Jim Danley, Marc Johnson and Bill Fanning lead the first class of inductees into the Colorado Dugout Club's Hall of Fame.

Do the Padres see Tony Gwynn, Jr. as an everyday center fielder or a fourth outfielder? If they're leaning to the latter, I think it's too soon to give him that label just because the Brewers did.

A car plows into a fire hydrant and creates a geyser in National City. Hit & Run Death Chargers Block Party The Bolts hold their annual block party for players, coaches and fans downtown.

Editor's note: Capt. John P. Gaffaney was one of 13 people killed Thursday at Fort Hood.

Adrian Gonzalez has certainly made plenty of noise with his bat in four seasons with the Padres.

More than any other hitter available on the free agent market, first baseman Adrian Gonzalez would be a perfect fit in the Mets lineup.A Due to salary limitations, San Diego will likely not be able to afford re-signing him when his contract ends after the end of the 2011 season.A Former Padre GM Kevin Towers speculates that Gonzalez will be traded.

Gary Sheffield is recognized as one of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and he started his Hall of Fame career with no one other than the Marlins.

Stephen Strasburg made his grand professional debut on Friday night, pitching in the Arizona Fall League at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, and his 3 1/3-inning scoreless outing may have been a preview of great things to come.

Who were the best I saw facing the Cincinnati Reds ? So many, so many. To be memorable, though, they have to be what pops into my head, not somebody I had to look up in a reference book.

Dodgers' struggles continue in loss to Padres ; NL West title must wait Joe Torre tried to be philosophical after the Los Angeles Dodgers failed for the third consecutive game to clinch their second successive NL West title What's worthwhile is worth the wait," the manager said after his Dodgers lost 3-1 to San Diego on Tuesday night.

It's impossible to know what the new Padres general manager will want to do about the current roster and how he will attack the offseason and go about shaping the roster for the 2010 season.

The talk for much of the last two months is that the Padres are not that far off from contending again in the National League West.

The Dodgers, who cana t quite seem to close the deal, try again Wednesday to clinch the National League West title.