Jerome Holtzman

Is there life after the Cubs? "Sure there is," Rafael Palmeiro replied. "I got my life after the Cubs." It has been eight years since the Cubs said farewell to...

Another baseball reunion at Comiskey Park Wednesday night and so I said hello to Jim Landis, Gary Peters, Pete Ward, Moose Skowron and Minnie Minoso. The occasion was the second...

`Big series," I said to White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler. "They're all big," Schueler replied. Still, it was the Yankees' first trip here and though they aren't what they...

I was talking to Cubs General Manager Ed Lynch at the batting cage and he said he had a question: "Who was Frantic Frank Lane?" Curious, I asked why he...

As someone once said, better late than never. I am unable to recall a ballplayer who didn't want to play for the Cubs--for at least one year. And so Wednesday...

Jim Leyland, the wise, old diamond owl who used to coach third base for the White Sox, was prepared--further evidence of why he is among baseball's best managers. Seeing a...

Harold Baines has always had his priorities straight. In these days when youngsters are searching for a so-called role model, Baines had no problem finding his hero. It's his father,...

Black Jack McDowell, the Comiskey Park castoff, says the slumping White Sox, and particularly chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, "is getting exactly what he deserves for doing what he did." McDowell, in...

This is the sports department, not the business section but this is to advise that we have a Japanese import who is thrilling the nations, both ours and his. He...

Motored out to Wrigley Field Wednesday to offer encouraging words to manager Jim Riggleman, the Cubs having lost seven of their last eight games, and at the end of a...