Jack Lang (sportswriter)

Jack Lang (May 11, 1921 – January 25, 2007) was an American sportswriter who spent more than forty years covering New York's baseball teams.

Newspaper career

Lang began his journalistic career covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Long Island Press in 1947 then, after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles for the 1958 season, the paper assigned him to cover the New York Yankees.

Additionally, Lang also began covering the

1962 season, continuing that beat until he retired in 1989.

When the Long Island Press folded in 1977, Lang moved to the New York Daily News.

He was the 1986 recipient of the

for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing".

Other activities

He was also widely known as the Executive Secretary of the

from 1967 through 1994.

He was also a member of Major League Baseball's scoring rules committee.

External links

• Biography at Baseball Hall of Fame
• Lang's obituary