Jerome Holtzman

Recommended summer reading: "DiMaggio, The Last American Knight," by Joseph Durso (Little, Brown $22.95), ranks with Robert Creamer's Babe Ruth and Charles Alexander's Ty Cobb on the top shelf of...

Don Zimmer, who retired Tuesday as the bench coach of the Colorado Rockies, is gone but will not easily be forgotten. He was in uniform for 47 consecutive seasons, as...

Acting commissioner Bud Selig, concluding his 999th day as baseball's czar, had reassuring words for the nation's fans Wednesday as the major-league owners launched their two-day quarterly meeting. Asked if...

Visiting with Toronto manager Cito Gaston on Monday night before his team's 3-2 loss to the White Sox at Comiskey Park, it occurred to me that his Blue Jays and...

White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler, in explaining why a managerial change was necessary, insisted he was merely doing his duty--to save the season. Following his lead, I have a...

I've heard it many times before, so it came as no surprise when Ozzie Guillen, the veteran White Sox shortstop, said: "It's a lot easier to fire one guy than...

Bring back the spitter. Or the emory ball. Or the Vaseline ball. Anything that would help the pitcher, baseball's forgotten man. "Or maybe they should allow us to scuff the...

The White Sox arrived here for a four-game series with the front-running Cleveland Indians, reportedly baseball's best team, and before Monday's opener manager Gene Lamont was asked if he considered...

Trust me, there is no attempt here to rain on the Cubs' parade. They have made me a believer--well, almost--but I have grown some grizzle on the diamond beat and...

Seeing John Kruk suit up at Comiskey Park Wednesday put me in a time machine warping backwards--back, back, 36 years ago, to Aug. 25, 1959. That was the day Ted...