Jerome Holtzman

Baseball is the only big sport without a clock and the longest night in World Series history proved anew the game is really never over until the final out. Trailing...

It turns out that in baseball, as in life, a certain amount of bull not only is acceptable, but desirable. In Tuesday night's third World Series game, for example, Yankees...

Forget about that Atlanta sweep. If anyone was going to stop the Braves, it was David Cone, not by himself, but with late-inning relief help from Mariano Rivera and John...

World Series miscellany: Jeff Torborg, the former White Sox manager now a network broadcaster, is believed to be a leading candidate for the Boston managerial assignment. If he takes it,...

As most baseball fans know, the Atlanta Braves have two Joneses: Andruw Jones, a precocious 19-year-old rookie outfielder who hit home runs in his first two World Series at-bats, and...

No courage. That's my problem. Picked the Braves in six, but once I sent it in--before it was set in type--I thought of calling the office and changing it to...

The earnest fall of those early leaves last weekend was Bob Lissak's clue to hie into the woods. He phoned that evening. "They're everywhere," my old grade school buddy gushed....

Game 1 of the World Serious was postponed because of heavy rain, so Yankees manager Joe Torre used the occasion for a gentle ramble about which is the most important...

Scouting high school baseball players is generally a crapshoot. The degree of difficulty is enormous because there are so many variables. Still, stardom can be predicted. Here, for example, is...

The late Casey Stengel was baseball's greatest manager in the second half of the 20th Century. His Yankee teams won 10 pennants in 12 years, including a record five in...