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Posted on 07/19/2016 7:00:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
Melvin Durslag, a sports columnist who covered the Los Angeles scene for decades beginning in 1939, died Sunday at a convalescent home in Santa Monica after a brief illness, according to friend and former colleague Larry Stewart. He was 95.
Durslag was said to string “together words like Nolan Ryan strings together strikeouts,” in the words of former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda.
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IMHO Melvin Durslag was the greatest sportswriter in the history of the world. Strike that, I meant to say in the history of the universe.
Read some of his stuff if you can find any. Compare it to the garden variety and boring articles spewed out by the highly overrated Jim Murray and you will see what I mean.
Jim Murray
LOL. Nope. Durslag by a mile.
RIP.
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