Jerome Holtzman

It has been anything but roses for Jim Leyland of the Florida Marlins. It generally is agreed Leyland is the best, or certainly among the best, of today's major-league managers,...

It was storybook stuff. Tony Fernandez, a well-traveled veteran who was an 11th-hour replacement for the injured Bip Roberts, provided the minimum 1-0 victory margin with an 11th-inning home run....

Don Fehr, the most powerful man in baseball this side of acting commissioner Bud Selig, will win another skirmish with the owners Wednesday with the anticipated announcement that only one...

There is always a Chicago angle. This has been a bittersweet series for Sandy Alomar, 54 next week. He played for Eddie Stanky on the White Sox in the late...

An erroneous scorer's decision from Game 3 of the American League Championship Series was changed Sunday, bringing an end to one of the most unusual game-ending plays in baseball's postseason...

According to legend, Satchel Paige, the late pitching star of the Negro leagues, sometimes would call his outfielders and infielders in and have them sit in the dugout. On these...

When he was with the White Sox, Ray Berres, now retired and living in Twin Lakes, Wis., was known as "The best of the best." Most baseball insiders--scouts, managers, coaches--generally...

Syd Thrift, who has seen it all, done it all and, to prove it, authored the wonderful instructional "Baseball, According to Syd Thrift," insists the grand old game has completed...

There is always more to the story and Cleveland first baseman Jim Thome's superb play Monday night should be described in greater detail. If not for Thome's diving stop and...

The Terry Bevington dismissal has been big news here, too, during the first round of the American League playoffs. Yankee manager Joe Torre, in the midst of attempting to defend...