Ben Olan

|birth_place= |death_date= |death_place= |occupation=journalist, author |employer= Associated Press |years_active=1952–c.2003 |spouse= }} Ben Olan (March 31, 1923 – November 11, 2019) was an American sports author and journalist. A former sports writer for the New York Associated Press, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1987 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He joined the Associated Press in 1952 as a sports writer, covering hockey, and retired after 51 years in the profession, around 2003. Provided by Wikipedia