Keith Olbermann's Tony Gwynn Tribute Is Fantastic

The volume of extraordinary Tony Gwynn tributes has been nearly impossible to keep up with — LBS has a good collection of them here — but Keith Olbermann’s was especially worth highlighting. Olbermann recounted the times that Gwynn was elated to meet Ted Williams, or legendary Yankee Stadium P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard, the former Padre’s unfathomable hitting numbers, and the 1998 SI story Olbermann wrote on Gwynn’s hitting slump:

“You don’t have to have had the privilege of knowing him to be heartbroken right now,” Olbermann said. “What you hoped he was like, he was like.”