Item #2 in my week long Gwynn fest is a bobblehead that was given away at a minor league game in 2007. Being that the Walla Walla Padres don’t exist anymore the closest thing is now the (Single A Mariners) Everett AquaSox apparently. I personally see a couple things wrong with them claiming allegiance to Tony Gwynn just days before he was about to be enshrined in Cooperstown.
1. Just because your city is 4-5 hours away from his former team doesn’t make it OK to make a bobblehead of him
2. Everett has been home to both the Giants (in the division) & Mariners (the current AL “rival”)
3. Gwynn played a total of 42 games for Walla Walla….not exactly a lot of games
4. I thought that the uniforms were more brown instead of reddish colored?
Anyways now that I have got that off my chest this is still a pretty cool item. I had many Gwynn bobbleheads yet none in a minor league uni.
This here is an amazing item. A cookbook compiled by the wives of the ’84 Padres called Padre Pickin’s with all the proceeds going to the Child Protection Program at Children’s Hospital San Diego. Yeah the recipes are cool and all but the thing that makes this “amazing” are all the pictures inside. Each player has a picture of himself with his family. Highlights include Tony Gwynn w/Little Anthony, Nate Colberts hairdo, Jerry Coleman with his wife and 2 dogs (is 1 of them the famous Gus??), Alan Wiggins wife’s Rick James hairdo, Trainer Dick Dents son wearing a Houston Astros hat, Tim Flannery’s recipe of BBQ sauce (possible rip off of Randy Jones??) & last but not least Steve Garvey being the only player to pose for a picture by himself. Yes the Garv decided he wanted nothing to do with wives, girlfriends, kids or even dogs. He wanted the entire focus on only himself. Another interesting thing to mention is there is a “Parents Prayer” in the front of the book and a “Cookbook Prayer” in the back. That’s something you won’t see now-a-days.
