John Piesen dead @ 80

[pandy]

Originally Posted by theiman

Between John Piesen doing T-Breds and Henry Hecht doing harness racing, if you were in NY area you had some great readings every day.

RIP John.

Agreed. Back then, the NY Post had the best racing section of any daily newspaper I've ever seen. The sports section overall was excellent. Over the years the Post had some of the top turf and harness writers including the late Rick Lang, John Pieson, Henry Hecht. This all ended in 2013 when the Post fired their entire racing staff a few days before the Belmont stakes...Ed Fountaine, John DaSilva, Anthony Affrunti.

[judd]

Originally Posted by pandy

Agreed. Back then, the NY Post had the best racing section of any daily newspaper I've ever seen. The sports section overall was excellent. Over the years the Post had some of the top turf and harness writers including the late Rick Lang, John Pieson, Henry Hecht. This all ended in 2013 when the Post fired their entire racing staff a few days before the Belmont stakes...Ed Fountaine, John DaSilva, Anthony Affrunti.

Remember sports Eye?

[pandy]

Originally Posted by judd

Remember sports Eye?

I worked for Sports Eye for 5 years, as a handicapper, communications editor, columnist, feature writer, and chartcaller, and wrote a column for the paper for forty years, so, yeah, I remember Sports Eye.