ST. LOUIS — As I sat across from Vinko Bogataj at a St. Louis coffeeshop, I just kept thinking — how the hell is he here today? Not because the 74-year-old man lives in a small village in Slovenia, but, like — how did he survive that crash in the first place? See, Bogataj is “the agony of defeat” guy. For sports fans of a certain generation, he was a notable part of their world (well, wide world). From the early 1970s until the late 1990s, Bogataj was featured in the opening to the TV show “Wide World of Sports” on ABC. The program was as much a part of American Saturdays as college football a…