Ledger legend captures 58 years in 200 pages

Posted by Ron Kaplan on May 22, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

One of Jerry Izenberg’s upcoming projects is a book about the death of the newspaper industry. He’ll write that one from personal experience: Izenberg, who has been with The Star-Ledger for almost 50 years, gave up his position as a regular sports columnist in 2006 to take the self-created post of “columnist emeritus.”
So just what [...]

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Lest we forget: Joe Hirsch

Posted by Ron Kaplan on January 10, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Joe Hirsch, who covered horse racing for more than 50 years for the Daily Racing Form and was widely regarded as the dean of American turf writers, died at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City on Friday. He was 80.
According to his obituary in The New York Times:
He was showing visible effects of Parkinson’s [...]

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