About Mel Durslag
Lived 1921 – 2016 (aged 95). Mel Durslag was an American sports journalist and sportswriter.
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. He retired in 1991.
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. He was named a finalist for the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in the 2014 balloting.
Durslag died after a brief illness on July 17, 2016, at Berkley East Convalescent Hospital in Santa Monica, California.
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Who was Mel Durslag?
American sportswriter
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Mel Durslag was born on 29 April 1921.
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Mel Durslag died on 17 July 2016 in Santa Monica, California.
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Mel Durslag was a sports journalist and sportswriter.
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