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Mel Durslag
Born(1921-04-29)April 29, 1921
DiedJuly 17, 2016(2016-07-17) (aged 95)
Santa Monica, California
OccupationSportswriter

Melvin Durslag (April 29, 1921 – July 17, 2016) was an American sportswriter.

Durslag began writing for the Los Angeles Herald-Express in 1939, while he was a senior at Los Angeles High School, and joined the staff full-time in 1940, while he was a freshman at the University of Southern California.[1] He wrote a sports column for Hearst papers in Los Angeles beginning in 1952 and had a long career at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In 1989, after the Herald-Examiner went out of business, he joined the Los Angeles Times.[2] He retired in 1991.[1] Durslag contributed an essay on Walter Alston to I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad.

He also wrote a column for many years for TV Guide.[3]

Durslag was elected into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2000 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[4] He was named a finalist for the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in the 2014 balloting.[5]

Durslag died after a brief illness on July 17, 2016, at Berkley East Convalescent Hospital in Santa Monica, California.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Long-time Herald Examiner columnist Melvin Durslag dies at 95". July 19, 2016.
  2. ^ "\o7 Melvin Durslag, veteran Los Angeles sports columnist... - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. November 22, 1989. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  3. ^ Curran, Bob (August 7, 1981). "Buffalo called 'sensuous'". The Buffalo News. p. C9.
  4. ^ "Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home".
  5. ^ "AJC's Furman Bisher among Baseball Hall of Fame finalists". www.ajc.com. Retrieved November 5, 2013.

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