Robert Grove Logan

We shared a Philly Inquirer apprenticeship and a love for Tastykakes. For too few years, we worked in the same Chicago sports department. Fortunately, for a number of reasons, we didn't buy our clothes in the same place -- but if we had shared a tailor, it would have been for burton-down shirts, and God, I hope he reads that...

I had a lot of fun swapping tales and spilling press-box coffee into Trash 80 computers with Bob Logan during my service to the Tribune's sports department. Lefty was a sketch.

I worked with Lefty for 17 years in the Tribune sports department and I'll remember him as a great guy and a terrific writer/reporter who was almost always smiling, usually because he had just uttered an outrageous pun. "The Days of Wine and Rojas" was a particular favorite from one of his baseball stories. He covered the first good Bulls teams in the early 1970s and never failed to entertain and inform his readers. Lefty and Bernie Colbeck and Dave Condon were the heart and soul of the...

I spent several years coaching college basketball in Chicago. Bob Logan was one of the nicest, kindest reporters I met. He always liked to give publicity to the programs that did not always get the big headlines. He always wrote just nice things about me. I am very appreciative of what he did for my coaching career in Chicago.

he was "uncle robbie" to me and a little bit "oscar madison" and i'm very proud of him

I hired Bob at the Illinois State Journal in Springfield. We maintained occasional contact over the years. We shared a mutual respect. He never acted like the guy who had made it in the "big-time" talking to a person who knew him when. He even mentioned me in one of his books. My sympathy goes to his family. I didn't know he was ill.

I got to know Bob quite well in recent years. He was an excellent writer and a great conversationalist. I will miss him when I get back to South Bend this fall to broadcast Notre Dame's football games...