Yep, he was the best contact hitter I've seen in my lifetime (41 years). He has so many mind-boggling stats. For example....in his career, he had 45 games where he registered 4 hits and only 34 games where he struck out more than once. And of those 34 games, only once did he strike out 3 times. He had one season where he stuck out only 15 times. Guys today do that in a week or two. Neither Pedro Martinez nor Greg Maddux ever struck him out. Maddux faced Gwynn 107 times and Gwynn hit .415 off Maddux. It goes on and on like that.....just crazy:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...182243389.html.