Legendary sports editor Bob Hammel passed away Saturday night (July 19) at 88 years old.
Hammel first arrived in Bloomington to study journalism at Indiana University but left after his freshman year in 1954 to pursue an opportunity as a sports reporter for his hometown paper, the Herald-Press in Huntington, Indiana.
He would later return to Bloomington to work for what became The Herald-Times. He led the sports department from 1966 to 1996.
