Jerome Holtzman

Attendance is up 24 percent, 9 percent not counting the Colorado and Florida expansion franchises. Six teams are averaging more than 40,000 per game. At the end of the regular...

False alarm Monday. I was told the White Sox had scheduled a midafternoon press conference at Comiskey Park, presumably to announce the acquisition of pitcher Tim Belcher from the Cincinnati...

A tale of two frustrated managers, midseason, at Wrigley Field: Jim Lefebvre of the Cubs: "Basically, we're still developing. Look good one day. The next day our youth shows up....

If I were the head of the baseball players' union, I would tell my players to do everything possible to help the owners increase their income. One reason and one...

Chuck Tanner managed in the big leagues for 19 years and often mentioned a novel idea: Instead of a starting rotation he would lump all his pitchers in one bag,...

It wasn't a promising beginning. The kid catcher with the Peoria Chiefs, a Cubs farm team, allowed a pitch in the dirt to get by him with two outs in...

Grizzled sportswriters such as myself are not supposed to have favorites, but sometimes you can't help yourself. So I motored out to Wrigley Field Tuesday, not so much to see...

I hope Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore's iron-man shortstop, changes his mind, but he said Friday night at Comiskey Park that he wouldn't pinch-hit or DH for the sake of keeping...

So long, Carlton, thanks for the memories. I was there when he played his first game with the White Sox-in Boston, Opening Day, 1981-and saw him win the game with...

Two hours before Sunday's game at Comiskey Park, I ran into Jeff Schwarz, the ambidextrous White Sox middle reliever. I asked how he was feeling, if he was ready to...