Jerome Holtzman

He learned to read from the backs of baseball cards, and at the age of 10, discovered he had a photographic memory. So he began doing so-called parlor tricks. He...

"Long time, no see," White Sox pitcher Chuck Cary said. Cary was joking. Mike Huff had been gone only four days and was suiting up for Saturday night's game against...

White Sox slugger Frank Thomas, who is off to a slow start, says the umpires "definitely" are calling the high strike, as ordered by American League President Bobby Brown. During...

Not so long ago, when Bo Jackson was a two-sport star, he was featured in a series of television commercials that emphasized, "Bo Knows." Bo knew this, Bo knew that,...

It wasn't Luis Aparicio and Nellie Fox here Tuesday night, but it sure looked like them in the first inning when the White Sox met the Minnesota Twins in the...

As anticipated, Greg Maddux returned to the scene of the crime Monday and gunned down his former Cubs teammates. "He was a surgeon out there," Atlanta manager Bobby Cox observed....

Greg Maddux, initially a reluctant defector, was asked if he would have any butterflies Monday when he walks to the Wrigley Field mound in an Atlanta Braves uniform to pitch...

I have been asked many times: "How can you watch all those baseball games? Doesn't it get dull?" I always respond with Red Smith's old line: "Baseball is dull only...

With each new season comes another shelf of baseball books. Among them: - "The Man in the Dugout" (Crown, $22.50) by Leonard Koppett, who has returned with his first offering...

Rene Lachemann, the manager of the expansion Florida Marlins, got out of the prediction business in 1984 when he was managing the Milwaukee Brewers. Enthusiastic, Lachemann predicted his Brewers would...