Article: Robert Gattis, restaurateur, dies 55-year-old Crogan's owner maintained fierce loyalty to Cal sports

Robert C. "Bob" Gattis, an Oakland restaurateur known for his generosity and his big love for Cal, died of a heart attack at his Orinda home Friday. He was 55.

Gattis owned Crogan's, a Montclair District restaurant with walls covered in photos of UC Berkeley sports heroes.

"Cal was everything to him," said Tom Rinehart, a Crogan's bartender.

Gattis played rugby at UC Berkeley, and his loyalty to the university grew even stronger as an alumnus. He was a Cal athletics donor and a director of the Cal-oriented San Francisco Grid Club. And "Bear Talk," a Cal men's basketball postgame show, was broadcast from Crogan's.

"He loved Cal. He bled Cal blue," said Rick Bennett, a friend of Gattis' ...

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