Jack Lang, sportswriter
By way of ESPN … Jack Lang, a Hall of Fame baseball writer who for two decades had the pleasant assignment of telling players they’d been elected to Cooperstown, died Thursday. He was 85.
“A fixture on the New York scene who covered Jackie Robinson’s major-league debut, Lang was honored by the Hall in 1986 with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award ‘for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.’ At his speech in Cooperstown in 1987, he poked fun at his talent.”
“I’m sure there are an awful lot of English teachers … in my early years that must be whirling in their graves at the thought that I won an award for writing,” he said.
Many elite players knew Lang for another reason.
“As Billy Williams said, ‘You’re the good-news man,’” Lang said in his speech.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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