Alan Jamison

We’re here to mash homers and not strike out

I had to ask. You know, the name.

Vinnie Pasquantino is simultaneously an absolutely perfect old-timey baseball name as well as the kind of extraordinarily Italian name a soap opera might give to the new, suave doctor from Brooklyn. I first read the name a little over two and half years ago, and it immediately popped out to me.

So, there’s got to be a story, right? Right?

“Sorry there isn’t more to it,” Pasquantino...

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