Jerome Holtzman

"Oh, what a country!" So said Sammy Sosa at Wrigley Field Tuesday night as he and Mark McGwire went head-to-head in the Roger Maris home run chase. "Sometimes I say...

Fueled by the pursuit of Roger Maris' home run record, and to a lesser extent by Cubs rookie phenom Kerry Wood, Major League Baseball has made a remarkable comeback. Attendance...

When Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961, the baseball establishment refused to acknowledge he had set the one-season home run record. The 1962 Official Baseball Guide, in reviewing Maris' heroics,...

Philip K. Wrigley, the late Cubs owner, called Jack Brickhouse into his office. It was May 1960, three weeks into the new season. The Cubs already had plunged into the...

Two weeks ago it seemed much easier than it does today. This shouldn't be taken as a prediction that the Roger Maris home-run record will be safe for another year....

Nobody knows what the future will bring but it's possible Todd Hundley, until recently the Mets' No. 1 catcher, will be with the Cubs next season. Possible. But unlikely. For...

Pitcher Don Sutton borrowed from the farewell speech of the legendary Lou Gehrig. "I'm the luckiest man on the face of the earth," he said in an emotional climax to...

The major-league owners, after all these years of maintaining a myth, struck a blow for truth in advertising Thursday when they elected Allan "Bud" Selig the game's ninth commissioner. He'll...

I am a sportswriter, not a debater, but some things shouldn't go unchallenged. For example, Cleveland's Mike Hargrove, manager of the American League All-Stars, has been insisting Omar Vizquel of...

Of the three sluggers chasing the Roger Maris one-season home-run record, it was more or less agreed Monday that Mark McGwire has the best chance to succeed. Asked for his...