HOF Writer JACK LANG - Dead at 85

[DODGER DEB]

Hall of Fame Sportswriter, JACK LANG, who was born and raised in BROOKLYN, passed away yesterday at age 85.

After returning from WWII, Jack joined the Long Island Press (a terrific paper), and started covering OUR DODGERS in 1946. He continued covering them until 1957. Read more....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16814376/

I last saw Jack in April 2003 when he joined US in the first group meeting WE had, at KeySpan Park, to discuss OUR planned 50th anniversary celebration of OUR 1955 World Championship. Ever the gentleman, Jack always wrote..."as he saw it".

How many on OUR Forum remember him?

RIP, Jack! WE will miss you!

c.

[strummer]

He was a pretty good sports writer with a dedication to details. He kept scorebooks on every game in every season and these became available about 10 years ago through auctions. I obtained a few and they were marvelous, every play of every game. You could recreate the entire game down to every detail by slowly reviewing his scorebooks. Of course, in those days "details" did not mean the same as "details" mean today. "Details" then meant every play, what each batter did and what fielders were involved and how. Today, "details" means what pitch, what kind of pitch, what was the count, whether it was cloudy or sunny at that moment, what the wind was, and what each batter had for breakfast and how often he did the same thing in the previous ten years of play.

[musial6]

Hall of Fame Sportswriter, JACK LANG, who was born and raised in BROOKLYN, passed away yesterday at age 85.

After returning from WWII, Jack joined the Long Island Press (a terrific paper), and started covering OUR DODGERS in 1946. He continued covering them until 1957. Read more....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16814376/

I last saw Jack in April 2003 when he joined US in the first group meeting WE had, at KeySpan Park, to discuss OUR planned 50th anniversary celebration of OUR 1955 World Championship. Ever the gentleman, Jack always wrote..."as he saw it".

How many on OUR Forum remember h

RIP, Jack! WE will miss you!

c.

The old LIP closed down in 1977.

[DODGER DEB]

Here is Bill Madden's column today in the NY Daily News on his friend, JACK LANG....

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/492102p-414512c.html

c.

[Mattingly]

I understand that he'd started out as a beat writer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. What was his basic reporting style back then? He seemed beloved from what little I've read of him. :)