Jerome Holtzman

"Of course, I remember Nellie Fox," said Whitey Ford, the former star pitcher for the New York Yankees. "How can I forget him? He was the toughest out for me....

White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, a baseball fan since his Brooklyn boyhood, is guilty as charged. He has forgotten some basic diamond history, specifically the 1951 season when the Brooklyn...

The price of poker continues to escalate. Almost every day there is another report on million-dollar ballplayers who want their contracts adjusted--upward, of course. Some of the stars, stuck in...

It takes more than one man to win a flag, and Robin Ventura won't be able to put the White Sox across, not by himself. But be prepared for a...

"I imagine we're the best scouted team in baseball. All the scouts and general managers, wherever they are, in a hotel room or in their office, can see us on...

The curators at the Hall of Fame have been assembling memorabilia on the late Nellie Fox, the pepperpot White Sox second baseman who will be inducted at Cooperstown on Aug....

Just as Willie Mays was born to play baseball, as the title of his first autobiography suggests, Larry Walker was born to play hockey. The Mays prophecy has long since...

Almost every day someone asks "Who will be the new commissioner?" and when will this supposedly glorious day come to pass? I tell them I don't know. And then they...

When Larry Dierker agreed last October to descend from the broadcasting booth to become the manager of the Houston Astros, a reporter called Jerry Coleman in California and asked him...

Found: An honest big-league ballplayer who has said flat out he doesn't think Tony Gwynn, the San Diego batmeister, will hit .400 this year. In my travels, I've heard the...