Ronald R. “Ronnie” Potter, the former Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards groundskeeper who was at the helm of a red Corvette the night Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s of playing in 2,130 consecutive games, died Monday from cancer at his home in Cambridge. The former Bolton Hill resident was 55.
“I first got to know Ronnie at the Mount Royal Tavern and took an instant liking to him, and then we became baseball buddies,” said Charlie Vascellaro, a Bolton Hill baseball writer and author. “He was warm, friendly and just a genuinely good guy. He was straight-up and told it like it was, for better or worse, but mostly it was for the better.