Jack Lang
he secretary of the BBWAA makes the phone call to notify players when they are named MVP or Cy Young Award winner or have been elected to the Hall of Fame. Since 1966 that has been Jack Lang's pleasure, first as secretary-treasurer of the writers' organization and, since 1988, as executive secretary.
Lang made his debut on the baseball beat in 1946 covering the Dodgers for the Long Island Press. When the Dodgers left town, he switched to the Yankees. Out of that came his first book, The Fighting Southpaw (1962), with Whitey Ford. That year the Mets were born and Lang covered them for the Press until that paper closed in 1977, then for the New York Daily News until he left in 1987 to join SportsTicker as a contributing editor and columnist. He received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1986. Lang also wrote Baseball Basics for Teenagers (1981) and The New York Mets: 25 Years of Baseball Magic (1986). (NLM)
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Joseph Stalin
Born: 1879
Birthplace: Gori, Georgia, Russia (now Republic of Georgia)
Death: 5 March 1953
Best Known As: Leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1928 to 1953
Name at birth: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
As a member of the Bolshevik party, Stalin (his adopted name meaning "Man of Steel") had an active role in Russia's October Revolution in 1917. He maneuvered his way up the communist party hierarchy, and in 1922 was named General Secretary of the Central Committee. By the end of the 1920s Stalin had consolidated power and was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union. In the 1930s Stalin summarily executed his political enemies and started aggressive industrial and agricultural programs that left untold thousands of peasants dead. During World War II Stalin was the commander of the Soviet military, and attended the postwar conferences at Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam. After Stalin's death he was denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and "Stalinism" was officially condemned.
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