Jerome Holtzman

In the mailbag: From Mike Alexander, Highland Park: "I am a scorekeeper for a boys baseball team and recall you writing to the effect that catchers are credited with a...

Going into the final week of spring training, White Sox slugger Frank Thomas was struggling, still not hitting with his accustomed power. Manager Terry Bevington pulled Thomas aside and told...

This just came in from Paul Kaplan of Libertyville: "We have an 80-year-old friend who recently regaled my 9-year-old with tales of Hack Wilson. She remembers how he was good...

He has more fun than anyone else who plays the game. For a lot of players, it's a job. Ozzie Guillen doesn't fall into that category. I'm not saying other...

See if you can identify which major-league manager made these statements: - "We haven't been able to get the clutch hit or the out we need." - "Basically, what's wrong...

Jackie Robinson demonstrated beyond doubt, in a time when there was doubt, that blacks and whites could play sports together and also work together. "What he did was very important,...

Pete Ward, the onetime White Sox slugger who has been there and done it--or rather, had it done to him--has three words of advice to the 0-10 Cubs: "Just keep...

Bob Wood of Lake Bluff called to say he's all in favor of baseball's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's racial barrier--except for one thing: "Not...

The Cubs put the show on for the home folks Tuesday, and it was a rerun. They blew it again, 5-3 to the Florida Marlins, who are off to a...

It was midmorning Monday and the 0-6 Cubs had assembled at Wrigley Field, the final preparation for their home opener. Manager Jim Riggleman was in his clubhouse office unwrapping a...