Jerome Holtzman

The discussion was about the baseball All-Star Game, Arch Ward's brainchild, and it wasn't surprising that Cubs first baseman Mark Grace offered a significant observation: "It's the only All-Star game...

Say hello to Charlie O'Brien, the 36-year-old White Sox catcher who has been around the block a few times. Like most catchers, he isn't big with the stick--a .222 career...

Don't blame Sammy! "He's entitled to take an 0-for-5," Mark Grace said in Tuesday's twilight after the Cubs lost another one-run thriller, 5-4 to the Cleveland Indians for the 10th...

The biggest problem confronting big-league baseball hasn't been the search for a full-time commissioner. In reality there has been no search. Bud Selig, in his sixth season as the temporary...

The drums are beating for phenom pitcher Kerry Wood, which is as it should be. But the Cubs have another player who has elevated his game--Sammy Sosa. He's redefining himself....

It was more than a quarter-century ago but Bobby Bragan, a baseball lifer who has touched all the bases--and more--remembers it as if it were yesterday. Bragan was president of...

Bob Considine, himself a distinguished journalist, wrote the foreword for Shirley Povich's 1969 biography, "All These Mornings." "Shirley led me by the nose ring, taught me how to sit down...

Thomas Wolfe, the famous novelist, insisted "You Can't Go Home Again." He was wrong, of course, as evidenced again here Monday night when the Atlanta Braves, the descendant of the...

Sports Illustrated, as it sometimes does, has gone overboard. On the cover of a recent issue, it carried the streamer "Trade of the Century," followed with a massive regurgitation of...

It takes the entire 25-man roster to win a pennant. Not even Kerry Wood, the Cubs' budding superstar, can do it alone. But, as manager Jim Riggleman conceded, sometimes one...