Jerome Holtzman

There is always another side to the story. For almost 20 years, I was convinced, along with many others, that Don Young had gone into hiding, his life irretrievably broken...

In big-league baseball, as in other business enterprises, the owners want to get their money`s worth. The players are given guaranteed contracts, but the owners are at risk. They have...

It was exactly a year ago that Richard Ravitch was piped aboard. Signed for $750,000 a year, $100,000 more than the salary of then Commissioner Fay Vincent, Ravitch was hired...

Is Peter O`Malley, the second-generation owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a genuine power in baseball`s top inner circle as his father, the late Walter, was before him? Or is...

There was no victory parade Friday in Toronto, as planned. Instead, the World Series returned to the Heart of Dixie, where the signs on the schoolhouse windows, in children`s scrawls,...

Predicting major league baseball can be hazardous to your health, particularly in the playoffs and/or World Series. But it has become a requirement, so the Toronto Blue Jays over the...

Big John McSherry, the veteran National League umpire, awoke Thursday in Room 381 at the Piedmont Hospital and flipped on his television. ''I didn`t want to watch last night,'' McSherry...

Pittsburgh`s Jim Leyland insisted Wednesday night before Game 7 of the National League playoffs that the baseball writers are wrong then they describe him as the best big league manager....

It would have been an absolutely wonderful World Series managerial matchup, Tony LaRussa of the Oakland A`s vs. Jim Leyland of the Pittsburgh Pirates, White Sox alumni who have made...

Leaving no turn unstoned, the Atlanta Braves flew ancient Phil Niekro in from California to pitch batting practice Tuesday night for Game 6 of the National League playoffs. Niekro`s appearance...