Jerome Holtzman

The first wave of applications, addressed to the Office of the Baseball Commissioner, New York City, dated Feb. 23, 1993, included the following from Erica Sitkoff of Marietta, Ga.: "I...

At 10:30 Thursday night, a man who always carries a briefcase and a stopwatch will knock on the hotel room door of Felipe Alou, the manager of the Montreal Expos,...

It was a big weekend for me, personally and professionally. The Oakland A's were at Comiskey Park, so I had the opportunity to visit with two longtime baseball friends, Goose...

It was a 1,000-to-1 shot, but romanticist that I am, it occurred to me that perhaps John Cummings, a rookie pitcher with the Seattle Mariners, is a great- or great-great...

Jim Leyland of the Pittsburgh Pirates had arrived at Wrigley Field and drawn the usual admiring crowd of journalists, many of whom insist he is the best manager in the...

He was the 1,389th player selected in the 1988 summer draft of amateur free agents. The Dodgers picked him on the 62nd round and did it only as a favor...

As a veteran sports scribe, I long ago came to the realization that I rarely get the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Everyone has his or her own...

After months of brainstorming and negotiating, Major League Baseball and two broadcast networks reached tentative agreement Saturday on a revolutionary television contract, setting up a tradition-breaking joint venture. Instead of...

Don Zimmer returned to Chicago last week as the third base coach of the newly born Colorado Rockies. And, like other big-league baseball happenings, the onetime Cubs manager insists the...

The Colorado Rockies have arrived for a two-game series with the Cubs, so this is a good time to look in on them and the Florida Marlins, the National League's...