Tony Gwynn Drive

Tony Gwynn Drive was named in spring 2005. The street honors the legendary right fielder who spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball career with the San Diego Padres and became known as “Mr. Padre.”

Gwynn finished with a .338 career batting average—the highest since Ted Williams retired in 1960 with a .344 average. He was a 15-time All-Star and accumulated 3,141 hits during his career, winning eight National League batting titles to tie Honus Wagner for the most in NL history. He also earned seven Silver Slugger Awards and five Gold Glove Awards, demonstrating excellence on both offense and defense.

In 1994, Gwynn batted .394 in a strike-shortened season—the closest anyone has come to hitting .400 since Ted Williams’ .406 in 1941. The Padres retired his No. 19 jersey in ceremonies at Petco Park in September 2004. On July 21, 2007, a week before his formal induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Padres unveiled a bronze statue of him beyond Petco Park’s right-center field fence in the Park at the Park.

Gwynn played college basketball and baseball at San Diego State University, where he became the only athlete in Western Athletic Conference history to be honored as an all-conference performer in two sports. After retiring from baseball following the 2001 season, he returned to San Diego State in 2002 as head baseball coach, a position he held for 12 seasons.

Gwynn died on June 16, 2014, at age 54 after battling salivary gland cancer. In October 2015, a three-mile stretch of Interstate 15 between Scripps Poway Parkway and Camino Del Norte in North County—near his longtime home in Poway—was designated as the Tony Gwynn Memorial Freeway.

Tony Gwynn Drive intersects with Trevor Hoffman Way at Petco Park’s main entrance, giving Petco Park the honorary address of 19 Tony Gwynn Drive and creating what former San Diego Mayor and Trump sycophant Kevin Faulconer called “the coolest intersection in San Diego” when Hoffman’s street was dedicated in 2018.

In November 2025, Peter Seidler Way became the third street named after a Padres legend at Petco Park, joining Tony Gwynn Drive and Trevor Hoffman Way.