{"id":47943,"date":"2014-06-16T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47943"},"modified":"2014-06-16T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:18:16","slug":"hofer-tony-gwinn-passes-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47943","title":{"rendered":"HOFer Tony Gwinn Passes, At 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gwinntony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47944\" alt=\"gwinntony\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gwinntony.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>\u00a0SAN DIEGO (AP) &#8211; Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn has died of cancer at 54.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gwynn&#8217;s sweet left-handed swing made him one of San Diego&#8217;s best-loved athletes. He was nicknamed &#8220;Mr. Padre&#8221; during his 20-year major league career.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had been on a medical leave from his job as baseball coach at San Diego State, his alma mater, since late March. Agent John Boggs said Gwynn died Monday in suburban Poway.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gwynn had two operations for cancer in his right cheek between August 2010 and February 2012. The second surgery was complicated, with surgeons removing a facial nerve because it was intertwined with a tumor inside his right cheek. They grafted a nerve from Gwynn&#8217;s neck to help him eventually regain facial movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0SAN DIEGO (AP) &#8211; Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn has died of cancer at 54. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gwynn&#8217;s sweet left-handed swing made him one of San Diego&#8217;s best-loved athletes. He was nicknamed &#8220;Mr. Padre&#8221; during his 20-year major league career. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had been on a medical leave from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47948,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47943\/revisions\/47948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}