| Mel Durslag | |
| Birth Date: | 29 April 1921 |
| Death Place: | Santa Monica, California |
| Occupation: | 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 wrote a sports column for Hearst papers in Los Angeles beginning in 1952 and had a long career at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In 1989, after the Herald-Examiner went out of business, he joined the Los Angeles Times.[1] He retired in 1991. Durslag contributed an essay on Walter Alston to I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad.
He also wrote a column for many years for TV Guide.[2]
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.[3] He was named a finalist for the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in the 2014 balloting.[4]
Durslag died after a brief illness on July 17, 2016, at Berkley East Convalescent Hospital in Santa Monica, California.[5]