Mel Durslag
Melvin Durslag (born April 29, 1921) is an American sportswriter.
Durslag began writing for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1940. He wrote a sports column for Hearst papers in Los Angeles beginning in 1952. In 1989, he joined the Los Angeles Times.[1] Durslag contributed an essay on Walter Alston to I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad.
Durslag was elected into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 1995. He was named a finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award in the 2014 balloting.[2]