Jerome Holtzman

Picking the pennant races should be enough for any baseball Boswell. But the information that major-league attendance, on an average, was up 21 percent in Tuesday's 11 openers urges comment...

There has been all this talk about Albert Belle and Frank Thomas equaling or surpassing the Roger Maris-Mickey Mantle one-season home run record of 115. It could happen, but at...

Professional ballplayers often use the media as a punching bag or as an alibi, sometimes both, so it was surprising here Monday, on the eve of the White Sox opener,...

It began in March, 1945. Wendell Smith telephoned Isadore Muchnick, a Boston councilman who was campaigning for re-election in a predominantly black area. Smith was a young sports writer with...

- Jerome Holtzman AL East: 1. Baltimore, 2. N.Y. Yankees, 3. Toronto, 4. Boston, 5. Detroit. AL Central: 1. Cleveland, 2. White Sox, 3. Kansas City, 4. Milwaukee, 5. Minnesota....

It began in March, 1945. Wendell Smith telephoned Isadore Muchnick, a Boston councilman who was campaigning for re-election in a predominantly black area. Smith was a young sports writer with...

Spring training cleanup: "I always knew it was a business," said Kenny Lofton in accusation and in apparent surprise after he was traded to the Atlanta Braves. It's time Lofton...

Don't feel sorry for Gene Lamont. The former White Sox manager, unjustly fired three years ago by his Comiskey Park bosses, has replaced Jim Leyland as the head honcho of...

Dennis Eckersley, the star relief pitcher now with the St. Louis Cardinals, enjoys swooping in to grab every possible save. No one has done it better in recent times. He...

What could be better than spending the final day in the Cubs' spring training camp chatting with outfielder Sammy Sosa, the budding superstar? The ultimate praise for a position-player is...