Jerome Holtzman

How's this for a baseball fiction story? The kid is a left-handed pitcher from Maracaibo, Venezuela, hometown of Luis Aparicio, the Hall of Fame shortstop. The kid's father lived on...

When I arrived here with the White Sox Monday, I hurried over to the Yankee clubhouse to say hello to Buck Showalter. After a few minutes of jaw-jaw I asked,...

The White Sox brought the show to Broadway and it occurred to me before, during and after Monday's 7-2 victory over the high-stepping Yankees that the Sox have the best...

The evolution of the big-league pitching staff seems to have come to an end. More than ever before, baseball now has the ninth-inning pitcher. The best example is Lee Smith,...

I arrived at Comiskey Park early Wednesday afternoon to interview Kirby Puckett and suddenly realized I and many others in the craft had drained him with 1,001 questions. His story...

The old baseball axiom that "You can't win them all" is a myth. Three 19th Century teams had undefeated seasons, the most famous the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. They were...

The supposedly immortal Ty Cobb, ferocious competitor, reportedly more than once said if he were stealing second base and his mother had the ball, he would go in full speed...

Jerry Crawford, National League umpire, was working in the minors and made a call that Jim Bunning didn't like. This was 20 years ago. A one-time star big-league pitcher (224...

Many of his teammates call him Maddux Jr. Like Greg Maddux, he has good control and works the hitters in and out, up and down, mostly down. Shawon Dunston was...

For those of you who were born yesterday, it's time you knew about Vada Pinson, first base coach for the Florida Marlins. He's as good a fellow as you will...