One of a kind

I worked with Bob Hammel at the Daily Herald-Telephone from 1970 to 1976. I was the managing editor waiting for his front-page copy from the Munich Olympic Games to arrive, line-by-line, on the H-T's primitive first-ever fax machine in 1972 and I was the reporter whose front-page coverage of Bloomington's local reaction to the 1976 NCAA championship win ran just under Bob's headline story from Philadelphia.

I never worked with anyone who could produce so much absolutely first-rate, incredibly readable, extremely entertaining and extraordinarily literate copy on deadline and make it look totally effortless. Bob was truly one of a kind. If he had gone to The New York Times or Sports Illustrated or some other nationally recognized publication — and he absolutely could have if

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