It should come as no surprise that Jon Ledecky was at ease and in his element on Wednesday as he met with three tables’ worth of journalists over lunch at the 21 Club in Manhattan.
The Islanders’ new co-owner once was a potential aspiring sportswriter himself, passing up a Fred Russell-Grantland Rice Scholarship to Vanderbilt before settling for Harvard and a career in business that seems to have turned out well for him.
Still, he continued to cover sports for the Crimson, Harvard’s newspaper, as an undergraduate.
Now he is in charge – with co-owner and college roommate Scott Malkin – of a major league pro sports franchise, meaning that for the foreseeable future he will be answering questions from reporters and fans more than asking them.