Jerome Holtzman

Ford Frick was fond of saying, "I started the thing." And, indeed, he did. A former New York baseball writer, Frick invented the baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, when...

"Why not now?" So asked Ron Santo, the Cubs' longtime All-Star third baseman, when he was informed Monday no players had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. "I'm...

Is players union chief Don Fehr using a four-corner offense? Fehr has had the ball in his court since Nov. 15 when baseball team owners delivered a proposal for the...

Veteran umpire Bruce Froemming delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Al Barlick last Friday in Springfield, Ill., and told about a rhubarb in Montreal. It was in 1971, Froemming's...

Racing against the calendar, with only four days left on the 50th anniversary year of the last Cubs pennant, I hurried to the Mt. Prospect home of Andy Pafko and...

It was a Merry Christmas and should be a Happy New Year for Bill DeWitt Jr. His father was a longtime major-league club owner and chairman of the White Sox...

Kirk McCaskill was having breakfast Wednesday at a North Shore eatery. As he was about to dig into a stack of pancakes, one of his friends asked what was his...

Said hello Monday to Cito Gaston of the Toronto Blue Jays. In in the baseball community, he's among the most admired and respected major-league managers. There are two reasons for...

This is one time when the absence of a superstar is welcome. For each of the last three years, only one player has been elected to the Hall of Fame...