Fronk was one of Oregon’s great athletes, ‘and the kind of person to match’

Bob Fronk was easy-going, smart, inquisitive, competitive and, among other things, one heck of an athlete.

Most of those traits are indisputable, especially the last one, as those who watched Fronk — who died in Portland Thursday at age 62 — play sports in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.

Fronk, however, was not lucky.