Jerome Holtzman

Day 458 Thursday without a baseball commissioner, an all-time record. Curious, I have been thumbing through the good books searching for the previous record-holder. Did you ever hear of George...

The New York Mets are searching for an established shortstop and willing to buy or trade for same. But, according to a reliable source, they are not interested in Shawon...

The great Babe Ruth was responsible for baseball's first salary revolution. When he signed for $80,000 in 1930, the idea of a ballplayer making more than the President of the...

Talked to Larry Himes, the Cubs' front-office boss, on Monday and in the traditional front-page manner, barked "What's new?" Not much, he said, except that he has been talking with...

Lou Gehrig, two years before his tragic death at 37, told an overflow Yankee Stadium crowd, "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Cal Ripken...

Baseball's money game continued Monday with two major free-agent signings: first baseman Will Clark to the Texas Rangers for what is becoming the standard $30 million for five years; and...

New Houston manager Terry Collins insists he isn't a Jim Leyland clone but admits, "I learned a lot from him and will use it." Leyland appears to be baseball's newest...

The letter, written in a boyish scrawl and with a Des Plaines postmark, was unsigned but carried an urgent request: "What should I do? I want to be a pitcher."...

Bill Dickey, who played on eight pennant-winning Yankee teams, seven of which won the World Series, was buried Monday in Little Rock, Ark., and it occurs to me this last...

There were no significant free-agent signings last week, when the market officially opened, but that has been the pattern in recent years. It's usually slow going at the beginning. Rafael...