Jerome Holtzman

In baseball's new welfare state, popularly known as revenue sharing, the wealthier clubs subsidize the poor. The financially strapped Pittsburgh Pirates, for example, were awarded $6 million in donations in...

The Cubs and White Sox met in the seventh game of the World Series Wednesday night at Comiskey Park. No, that's not right. It just seemed that way. It was...

Finally, joy at the top. "I've had dozens of calls from the owners, and all of them I mentioned said, `Thank you,' " Bud Selig, baseball's long-term acting commissioner, reported....

Interleague play is here to stay. This was apparent Monday at Comiskey Park when the Cubs motored across town for their first-ever regular-season game with the White Sox. The Cubs...

Baseball history had been made. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Cubs 4-2 at Wrigley Field Friday in the National League's first interleague home game, and within minutes Yosh Kawano, the...

Todd Hundley was 10 and growing up in Palatine when he said to his father, "Dad, I want to be a catcher." "Are you sure?" Randy Hundley asked his son....

It pays to advertise. Ray Miller, the distinguished Baltimore pitching coach, was strolling through the visitors' clubhouse at Comiskey Park Monday night wearing his Orioles black and orange T-shirt. Written...

Ready or not, Major League Baseball is about to undergo the most significant schedule change in its 121-year history. For the first time, the American and National Leagues will play...

Like an ice glacier, big-league baseball moves slowly and so it has taken a while--75 years--but William L. Veeck's idea of a round robin of interleague games will begin a...

Many pitchers, if not most, think they know it all by the time they get to the big leagues. They don't listen to their coaches and, if they do, it's...