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Lou Hatter was one of the most wonderful, gentlest gentlemen I ever met,” added Orioles’ Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson.
After his retirement Mr. Hatter divided his time between Baltimore and his family’s farm just outside of Clarksville. It was there on March 24 that he was stricken with an aortic aneurysm. He had been in the surgical intensive care unit at Duke University Medical Center since then.
Although his assignment was world class sports for most of his career, Mr. Hatter never lost his love for writing about amateurs - people who played sports for the sheer joy of the game. He often spoke fondly of the high school baseball and amateur golf matches he had covered.
“That was the thing about Dou,” said Bob Maisel, his long time Miming Sun editor and friend. “Whatever his assignment, he always carried it out with class, style, good humor and accuracy. . .that’s the way it has always been with Lou Hatter. He did his job well the way it should be done, but never made an enemy while doing it.”
Mr. Hatter was bom in Baltimore on August 18, 1919, a son of Elmer Leintz and Alice Virginia
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