- (1957-October 22, 2006) Wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Glad You Asked section.
- His wife is the president of the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame.
- His father was once a boarder in Frank Yankovic's household in Cleveland.
- He is a graduate of John Carroll University.
- Named one of the top 10 sports columnists in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 1985.
- In 1987, he won the U.S. Football Writers Award for the best column in the nation. It was a piece on Browns player Don Rogers, who had just died of a cocaine overdose. The column brought a response that may be unprecedented in Plain Dealer history. Boxes of mail were delivered to Dolgan each day for about a week, with an equal number of phone calls coming in. About 95 percent of the response was favorable.
- In 1968 and 1969 he won the Cleveland Press Club award for the best sports story of the year.
- Dolgan has won sportswriting awards in five decades, from the 1960s to 2000s.
- In 1997, U.S. sports editors named his series on black baseball pioneers one of the top 10 in the country.
- For many years Dolgan stood alone in town as a critic of Art Modell's operation of the Browns.
- He wrote a sports column for approximately 15 years. His columns were noted for humor and for taking on controversial subjects. He may have been the first sportswriter to advocate for the use of instant replay as an officiating tool in football. He supported Muhammad Ali's position that he be allowed to box while his anti-draft case was being settled.
- In 1998, he wrote a summer-long series on the 1948 Indians, visiting the living players on that team, from New Jersey to California.
- In 1985, the nation's sports editors named Dolgan one of the top 10 sports columnists in the country.
- Bob Dolgan was with the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 45 years, from 1957 to 1963 and from 1967 to 2006, when he retired. Thirty-three of those years were in the Sports department.
- In 1992, his series on "What's Wrong With the Indians?" won a second-place award from the Ohio AP. Dolgan's sports columns and stories have been reprinted in Golf Digest, The Sporting News and Baseball Digest.
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