About Barry Meisel BARRY MEISEL is a former award-winning investigative sports reporter for the New York Daily News. In the 1980s he wrote a column for the Hockey News, where he covered Bernie Saunders. Four decades later, Meisel and Saunders meet again. Books by Barry Meisel Shut Out The Game That Did Not Love Me Black by (author) Bernie Saunders & Barry Meisel