Jerome Holtzman

Managers keep in touch. They talk on the phone, and so it was about two, three weeks ago when Bobby Cox of the Braves rang up Joe Torre of the...

I can't hit and I can't pitch--not at the major-league level--and so all this department can do for the sagging White Sox is offer some unsolicited advice: Hang in there!...

Only two ballplayers, so far as I could tell, were held in awe by their teammates: Mickey Mantle and Andre Dawson. And it wasn't only because they hit home runs...

According to the headlines, "Likelihood of baseball accord grows as talks reach into wee hours." And "Baseball on brink of labor peace." Finally, the warring owners and players are about...

Frank Thomas is turning into the Wild Bull of the Pampas--i.e., Luis Firpo, who once fought Jack Dempsey. The White Sox slugger was on the rage for the second consecutive...

Many baseball fans know Yankee owner George Steinbrenner only as the ogre who is constantly firing managers in a frantic desire for victory. But Joe Torre, the Yankees' current manager,...

Jim Bunning fell into the usual trap Sunday when he suggested during his Hall-of-Fame induction speech that the owners and players should get together and "Hire a commissioner by mutual...

The late Nellie Fox is expected to be enshrined next year, but in the meantime, the show will go on here Sunday with the induction of four old-timers into baseball's...

It was 5l years ago last Saturday when the Cubs "clinched" their last pennant. Jim Gallagher, the general manager in 1945, has a vivid recollection: "We had a shaky pitching...

My favorite Tom Lasorda story: Joe Ferguson, a big, strong fellow, was playing the outfield. Lasorda wanted to convert him into a full-time catcher. Ferguson balked. "Did you ever hear...