John Mehno
Sad news was delivered today with the death of Pittsburgh area sportswriter John Mehno. He was 64 years old.
Mehno wrote for various organizations over the years - Beaver County Times, Altoona Mirror, Associated Press, Sporting News. In recent years he would do twice weekly columns that would appear online. They were among the more trenchant and humorous pieces of sports writing that you would find here in the tri-state area.
I first became aware of John Mehno when he would sometimes substitute for various sports talk show hosts on the old WTAE 1250. Many years ago, I asked him to speak at one of the Pittsburgh SABR meetings, and he gave a most informative and entertaining summary of his history with the Pittsburgh Pirates. I ran into him on several occasions over the years since then and he was always a friendly a gracious guy with whom to have a conversation.
He was also a Facebook friend, and would always respond to your comments and posts. I can say with great pride that he once referred me by name when quoting from "The Grandstander" in one of his columns a few years back. Coming from a REAL sportswriter, that was a real compliment. His observations on the Pittsburgh sports scene will be greatly missed.
RIP John Mehno.
Very nice comments. John was a very good friend to all of us sports fans.
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