Baseball hall-of-famer Tony Gwynn could soon be memorialized on a major San Diego freeway.
County supervisors voted on Tuesday to approve $7,500 to purchase signs along a portion of Interstate 15 as the “Tony Gwynn Memorial Freeway.” The state Legislature must now vote on whether or not to support the memorial.
If passed, the signs would be erected on the 15 between Scripps Poway Parkway and Pomerado Road near Poway.
Gwynn, 54, died on June 16 after a long battle with cancer of the salivary gland. He was a longtime Poway resident.
Gwynn played his entire 20-year career with the San Diego Padres and earned the nickname Mr. Padre. To locals, he was also known as “Mr. Poway.”
