Jerome Holtzman

It's always best to consult an expert and so I called Larry Amman of Washington, D.C., a member of the Society of American Baseball Research who is the reigning expert...

Two old catchers meet on the street and shake hands. Their fingers are so gnarled they can't pull apart. The village blacksmith is summoned. Freed, the catchers proceed on their...

I am not writing this to embarrass anybody, but to state the facts, plain and simple, and explain anew the vagaries of trades. You never know. On April 3, 1987,...

Tony La Russa, the dugout wizard who apprenticed at Comiskey Park, returns to the scene of the crime Tuesday night when his Oakland Athletics open a three-game set with the...

It often has been said there is nothing new under the baseball sun, and further evidence is offered below: a portion of a letter from Ring Lardner (then a Tribune...

A majority of the major-league owners, as many as two-thirds and perhaps more, spoke in favor of resuming negotiations with the players association--but with this condition: Bargaining will reopen, from...

In need of a change of pace, I ventured from the diamond into the drama department. But it wasn't a total departure. It was a reading of Jeff Santo's newest...

Grizzled Gene Mauch, whose eyes have seen the glory and beyond, has returned after a seven-year absence. But this time, instead of being baseball's youngest major-league manager, which he was...

I suppose this falls in the category of what goes around comes around, but a quarter of a century later Phil Regan, in his maiden voyage as a major-league manager,...

The first week: Under ordinary circumstances, the pitchers are ahead of the hitters. But because of the strike and the abbreviated spring training, the pitchers are not at full strength....