In Tony Gwynn's heyday, we didn't have websites and Twitter accounts devoted to impressing us with baseball statistics. We looked at baseball cards and box scores, and when we saw Gwynn's name, we almost certainly gawked.

Just pick a few years and read his batting averages: .351, .317, .339, .370 — it was otherworldly. It was how you hit in video games, or while playing wiffle ball with your friends. But Gwynn was doing it against the best baseball players in the world. A true hitting machine, he was.

With news of his death Monday, at the unfortunately young age of 54 after a battle with cancer, the Internet was flooded with Gwynn stats, each more incredible than the next. It was like 1987 again (the year Gwynn hit .370) and we were all in awe of his numbers.

Most of us know the headlines — the .338 career batting average, the eight batting titles, the 3,141 career hits and 15 All-Star games — but Gwynn's greatness went beyond the big shiny stuff. It could also be found in his lack of strikeouts, his four-hit games, his ability to get a hit with two strikes.

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So here are 19 incredible facts about No. 19, Mr. Padre, the illustrious Tony Gwynn:

• Gwynn's rookie season, in which he played in 54 games, is the only year of his career that he didn't hit .300. He hit .289. His 19 consecutive .300 seasons are second to only Ty Cobb, who had 23.

• Gwynn's career .338 batting average is of a different era. As Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan notes, every other hitter with an average of .338 or above started his career before 1940.

• From 1995, the year he turned 35, to 2001, the final year of his career, Gwynn hit .350, with 937 hits. He never stopped being productive at the plate.

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• For his career batting average to slip below .300, Gwynn would have needed to add 1,183 hitless at-bats to his total — roughly the equivalent of two full seasons. (Via @AceballStats)

• Of the 12 top batting seasons since the expansion era began in 1961, Gwynn owns four of them. Those are: .368 in 1995, .370 in 1987, .372 in 1997 and .394 in the strike-shortened 1994 season. (via Baseball Reference)

• In 1994, Jeff Bagwell hit .368, the 13th best season since 1961, but didn't even win the NL batting title because Gwynn was nearly 30 points better.