Vic Ziegel

Victor Ziegel (August 16, 1937 – July 23, 2010) was an American sports writer, columnist, and editor for the New York Post and the New York Daily News. His writing frequently centered on baseball, boxing, and horse racing.

Ziegel was raised in the Bronx, New York. His parents, Morris and Gilda, were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Ziegel attended Yeshiva Salanter and William Howard Taft High School. He went to City College of New York, where he wrote for The Campus, the student-run newspaper. While in college, Ziegel also wrote about high-school basketball for the Long Island Press. He accepted a retirement package from the newspaper in 2009, but continued to write occasional columns for the Daily News as a freelance writer. In 1978 Ziegel co-wrote (with Lewis Grossberger) The Non-Runner's Book, which satirized the then-popular sport of marathon running. He wrote Summer in the City: New York Baseball 1947–1957 in 2004.

Awards Ziegel won several awards, including the Nat Fleischer Award for boxing writing (1983) and the Red Smith Writing Award for his Kentucky Derby coverage (1992 and 1998).