Lest we forget: Mike Wallace

April 8, 2012

The journalism world lost another icon with the passing of Mike Wallace, the veteran CBS newsman known to more recent viewers as one of the original members of the 60 Minutes team.

But Wallace, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 93, was also a straight news reporter and anchor, as well as, incongruously enough, a game show host.

His baseball connection? For one thing, this 1957 interview with pitching ace Bob Feller, late of the Cleveland Indians. (Transcript here.)

Perhaps more iconic: his interview with Roger Clemens, who adamantly denied using steroids:

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