Ron Kantowski
Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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It was August 1985 when the 15-year-old baseball prodigy with the sweetest baseball swing since Darryl Strawberry (bet you thought I was going to say Ted Williams) barged into the press box at Ricketts Park, home of the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M., asked if I was the reporter from the local newspaper and, if so, when did I want to interview him?
Jimmy Vasser is not one to cry over spilled milk. So he doesn’t regret that when he had his best opportunity to swig some in Victory Lane at the Indianapolis 500, he was off running in a rival series.
“Why is there air?” “If God is all powerful, can he make a rock so big that even he can’t lift it?” “What are those dirt circles near home plate at Cashman Field for?
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