Jerome Holtzman

The ex-Cub factor, which I have never believed, had been working in reverse. In the first two games of the American League pennant playoffs and through the first inning of...

Only in America. No, only in New York could a 12-year-old kid become the centerpiece of baseball's postseason. But that's how it was here Thursday as the Orioles bested the...

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had asked Yankee fans not to boo Baltimore's Roberto Alomar. Instead, he said, they should greet him with silence. "It would make it clear," Giuliani said in...

Game 1 of the American League Championship Series was postponed because of bad weather here Tuesday, so it was an ideal day for a rainy-day story. Fortunately, Richie Phillips, chief...

In big-league baseball there seems to be a precedent for just about everything. Last week, for example, Houston owner Drayton McLane Jr., who is downsizing, fired his manager, Terry Collins,...

Roberto Alomar's heroics Saturday weren't limited to his 12th-inning home run. The second baseman also was responsible for extending the game into extra innings. After Todd Zeile fouled out for...

By all accounts, Jim Leyland has four concrete managerial offers to consider, including a very enticing one from the White Sox. If so, it could mean only that Terry Bevington...

Don't be surprised if Baltimore second baseman Roberto Alomar is suspended Thursday from the remaining games of the American League division playoffs. Alomar spit in the face of umpire John...

While jawing with Don Zimmer on Monday at Yankee Stadium, I offered that if I was the American League president, Roberto Alomar would be suspended for Baltimore's entire five-game divisional...

There is this to add to the Jim Leyland story: Last Wednesday when he managed his last home game in Pittsburgh, he gave a 12-year-old boy his team jacket. The...