Major League Baseball honored the life of Tony Gwynn three months after MLB and Fox were criticized for not bringing attention to Gwynn’s death at the All-Star Game. Rickey Henderson, a guest of Hall of Fame prez Jeff Idelson, on what he learned from Gwynn: Tony taught me the National League strike zone. Wearing an A’s cap, La Russa got cheered, sort of, when he and Roger Craig brought the game ball to the mound, 25 years after managing the Quake Series. David Rinetti, A’s VP of stadium operations who’s part of the World Series security team, made a fashion statement: green tie with tiny white elephants. In San Francisco, it was at the new James R.