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Cannoneers · week 9 · 1989

R. Passwater was not supposed to be here

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Cannoneers

I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like R. Passwater, who was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. 198 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. He is 36, and he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. It counts the same as anybody else's.

This story ran on the wire in week 9 of 1989. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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