Jerome Holtzman

Bowie Kuhn, the former baseball czar, had an interesting comment here Monday, the day after the annual Hall of Fame inductions. He believes the club owners would be more agreeable...

The letter was written in a boyish scrawl and sent to the late Warren Brown, then the baseball writer and columnist for Chicago's American. "Dear Mr. Brown: "W.A. Hulbert was...

Giving the customers a time at bat: "To speed up , give a team a specific number of timeouts. Maybe 15. Charge a team for every delay beyond that. No...

A woman caller who described herself as a lifelong Cleveland fan is understandably excited about the runaway Indians. With the season barely half over, they were 34 games over .500...

In baseball, as in life, the mighty fall. More often than not, they don't get up again. Which is what makes the return of White Sox pitcher Dave Righetti something...

When he was 9 or 10 years old, growing up in Palatine, he said to his father, "Dad, I want to be catcher." "You sure you want to be a...

Baseball games take too long. That's all we have been hearing and reading about the last two months, and so this may be the time to correct some misconceptions. Last...

Minnesota's Kirby Puckett, playing in his 10th consecutive All-Star Game, insisted he wasn't worried about facing Hideo Nomo, the Dodgers' pitching sensation who made the start for the National League...

It was hard to believe that Frank Thomas was the first White Sox player to hit a home run in an All-Star Game, but otherwise, there were few surprises in...

Babe Ruth, it has been said with accuracy, saved baseball after the 1919 Black Sox scandal. And there was much talk here Monday, on the eve of the All-Star Game,...