Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Parade Video
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303210376
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,605 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

Tony Gwynn's, The Five Keys To Hitting, with Coach Greg Riddoch. Narrated by Jerry Coleman. Special Appearances: Joe Carter, Dwight Gooden, Chris Gwynn, Doug Harvey, Tommy Lasorda, Jack McKeon, Kevin McRynolds, Phil Niekro, Tim Raines, and John Smoltz. Contains Tony's Secrets on: Five Keys to Hitting, Secrets of the Swing, Power Hitting vs. Contact Hitting, The Inner Game, The Stance, The Stride, The Swing, Timing, and Drills for Kids.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Content in this Video, November 29, 1999

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Stephen A. Rose "steverose405" (Billerica, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tony Gwynn's The Five Keys To Hitting - The King of Swing [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am very disappointed in "Tony Gwynn's The Five Keys To Hitting - The King of Swing". There is precious little instruction content on hitting in this video. What secrets Tony Gwynn knows about hitting and drills - he kept to himself. The video is 30 minutes long of which 10 minutes is devoted to introducing us to Special Guests and other unknowns who offer zero to the subject matter. Another 19 minutes is devoted to telling us what a great guy Tony Gwynn is, and how hard it is to travel all the time. A full one minute is devoted to actual hitting instruction, and there is no content provided that is not already know by any first year tee baller. The bloopers at the end of the production just demonstrate how Gwynn treated the making of this video as a joke. This video was a complete waste of time and not even worth a free viewing of the tape.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I Agree! Thumbs Down!, April 13, 2000

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Anna S (Thompson Falls, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tony Gwynn's The Five Keys To Hitting - The King of Swing [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was so upset after seeing this video that I just have to get my two cents in! I am a baseball mom that only knows what my 2 boys (9,12) tell me about some of the more difficult fundamentals of the game. Luckily while shopping online for a baseball intructional we didn't see this video first or they might have jumped all over it. Instead we immediately chose the number one hitting video in the nation, "Batting A Thousand". Believe me! After watching Tony Gwynn's video at a friends house, I couldn't beleive it. "Batting A Thousand" is definitely taking the world by storm for a reason. After the press touted "Batting A Thousand" as the first "genuine" pro hitting video baseball has seen in ages, I figured it was just good advertising. No Way! These guys are the real deal! Pro players giving it to you straight, no waisted time on cameos buy washed up has-beens. I have even learned a thing or two and my boys can't stop watching it. D&D Baseball also has five other titles....my shopping is done for the year! A Happy Baseball Mom!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the price, September 27, 2001

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Calvin Dang (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tony Gwynn's The Five Keys To Hitting - The King of Swing [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Wasted alot of time talking about what he likes to do. Doesn't get into details of the swing or the concepts of the swing.