As a lifelong baseball fanatic (His team? The New York Yankees, of course!), pool player and now a keen golfer, Ron does like to keep himself 'on the ball' ...

Ron played several seasons with the Dodgers Allstars, a celebrity baseball team, and as you can see he's a dab hand with a catcher's mitt ...

Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) (Ron's baseball hero)

"I bet you can't hit one out against this gale. I bet you a case of beer you won't do it."
Twins' pitcher Ted Sadowski to Mickey Mantle when pitching to him during a storm with gale force winds blowing.

"I'll take Budweiser."
Mickey to Twins' pitcher Ted Sadowski when Mickey belted a homer into the right-field bleachers on the next pitch.

"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."
Mickey Mantle

"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer."
Mickey Mantle

"Long before many of us ever cracked a serious book, we knew something about mythology as we watched Mickey Mantle run out a home run through the lengthening shadows of a late Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium."

Bob Costas' Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, August 15th, 1995 - Dallas