Vic Ziegel, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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sportswriter
Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1937
Date of Death: 23-Jul-2010
Profession: sportswriter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Vic Ziegel
- Victor "Vic" 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.Ziegel wrote for the New York Post during the 1960s and 1970s.
- He also wrote for magazines, including Inside Sports, New York, and Rolling Stone.
- In 1985, Ziegel became executive sports editor at the Daily News, where he also wrote a regular sports column.
- 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 1976, Ziegel worked with retired baseball player Jim Bouton on Ball Four, a short-lived television series based on Bouton's best-selling book of the same name.
- 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.Ziegel, who was a non-smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2009.
- He died of the disease at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx on July 23, 2010.
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