Jerome Holtzman

Columbo here, hurried into the White Sox clubhouse Monday night to find out what's going on. The Sox have won 19 of their last 22 games and are tied with...

According to Henry Rodriguez, the National League's newest slugging sensation, the trouble began when he was with San Antonio in the Texas League. It was in 1990 and Rodriguez, a...

The 1988 summer draft of amateur free agents was winding down--1,389 players had been selected. The scouting director of the Los Angeles Dodgers remembered manager Tom Lasorda had asked him...

Say hello to a coming star. He is Ricky Bottalico of the Philadelphia Phillies, a right-handed relief pitcher, the son of a New England architect and a man who has...

In big-league baseball, as in life, mothers and fathers are the same. Buddy Bell, the rookie manager of the Detroit Tigers, has the hopeless task of trying to make the...

White Sox outfielder Tony Phillips, who plays hard and has a short fuse, on Tuesday was fined $5,000 by American League President Gene Budig for punching out a Milwaukee fan...

There was once a pitcher named Billy Loes who flourished in the late 1950s and early '60s. He almost always won in double figures and had an outstanding winning percentage,...

Most major-league players, including many of the grizzled veterans, have the same fantasy: hitting a ninth-inning, game-winning, bases-loaded home run in the seventh and final game of the World Series....

Cecil Fielder had hit three consecutive home runs--in the third, fourth and sixth innings. When he came up with two outs and runners on second and third in the eighth...

To begin, a personal reminiscence: Outfielder Frank Ernaga had been recalled from the Cubs' Portland club of the Pacific Coast League and was about to make his major-league debut. The...