Jerome Holtzman

Acting commissioner Bud Selig was almost biblical. "Was it worth it?" a reporter asked. "We are where we are," Selig replied. And so, after 47 months and 19 days, as...

Tell me," Jerry Reinsdorf said last week. "Is there a rule against the White Sox winning the pennant?" I told him I knew of no such regulation. It has been...

Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, suddenly baseball's leading philanthropist, Tuesday strengthened his White Sox for the seasons ahead by signing free-agent slugger Albert Belle to the biggest contract in baseball history--$10 million...

Like politics, big league baseball can make for strange bedfellows. White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, who has been speaking of the necessity of "fan-friendly" ballplayers and simultaneously advocating a drag...

I don't know who's going to blink first--acting Commissioner Bud Selig or union chief Don Fehr--but I'm reminded of the classic story of the two negotiators on opposite sides of...

Now that the owners have rejected the players' latest labor proposal and, in effect, kicked the ball back to union chief Don Fehr, an avalanche of agony can be expected....

Outwardly all seems quiet on baseball's labor front, but there is unrest on the inside of the inside. The owners, including acting commissioner Bud Selig, have been debating whether or...

Who would have thought it? The Atlanta Braves, after putting the torch to the Yankees in the first two games--by a combined 16-1 margin--fizzled out and lost the World Series...

It was 2 a.m. Thursday and Florida Marlins Assistant General Manager Frank Wren was in a crowded cab, returning to his hotel. About an hour earlier, Wren and his colleagues...

Even the best defensive players make errors. That's what happened in the fourth inning Thursday night when Marquis Grissom, Atlanta's Gold Glove center-fielder, dropped Charlie Hayes' leadoff deep fly in...