Jerome Holtzman

The postgame story was White Sox pitcher Wilson Alvarez, who shut down the Blue Jays with a route-going seven-hitter. But two hours before game time Friday night, the big news...

Blaming the manager is the last lament of a loser. First Bo Jackson and now George Bell have been expressing displeasure with Gene Lamont. Bo was upset because he wasn't...

Understand, please, there is no disrespect here for either Jack McDowell or Alex Fernandez, horses both. Black Jack won 22 games and Alex 18. Without those 40 victories, a powerful...

Philip K. Wrigley, bless his altruistic soul, had become weary of firing his manager. So for two years, beginning in 1961, he rotated his coaches in and out of the...

The Toronto Blue Jays, who have speed to burn, didn't run as expected. The comparatively lead-footed White Sox, who weren't supposed to run, stole two bases and advanced on three...

I asked Rickey Henderson, baseball's all-time stolen-base champ, if he would stop running. The Blue Jays were in the midst of a light Comiskey Park workout Monday. Henderson was at...

Saw Chuck Comiskey, the grandson of the Old Roman, at Comiskey Park when the Sox were clinching. Comiskey was the guest of chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, and several times during the...

A doff of the chapeau to White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler, not merely for the deals he made, but mostly for the ones he didn't make. When I shook...

The Big Hurt is hurting. No home runs or runs batted in since Sept. 19, when he ran into a fence pole in Oakland. But if Frank Thomas needs an...

According to some of the expert opinion, the Toronto Blue Jays, who are next for the White Sox, will have the edge because of their experience in postseason play. This...