Jerome Holtzman

Question for the armchair baseball analyst: Your team has taken an 8-0 lead in the second inning and obviously is on its way to squaring the best-of-seven National League playoffs...

Mother, teach your son to throw the knuckleball and maybe he will become an instant baseball hero like Tim Wakefield of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Knuckleballers are a rare breed, soft-tossers...

Barry Bonds, the Pirates` slumping slugger, didn`t knock out four hits here Sunday night, as Pirates manager Jim Leyland had predicted. Bonds got only two hits, scored two runs, had...

Barry Bonds, the Pirates` slumping slugger, didn`t knock out four hitsSunday night as Pittsburgh manager Jim Leyland had predicted. Bonds got only two hits, scored two runs, drove in a...

Every night when the street lights went on, Marvin Freeman and his two brothers had to be inside or in front of their house on Chicago`s South Side. ''Some of...

Father knows best. Reaffirmation of this truism was evident again Friday night when the slumping Barry Bonds regained his batting stroke. He didn`t get any hits but drove two balls...

Here`s one way to look at it: A loss is a loss whether the score is 1-0 or 13-5 as it was here Wednesday when the Braves, for the second...

Among other things, credit Bobby Cox, the Atlanta manager, with consistency. An hour or so before the National League playoffs began here Tuesday night, Cox told reporters, ''We`re not going...

Jim Leyland, the Pittsburgh manager, was in an expansive pre-game mood Tuesday. Among other things, he answered questions about what the Pirates would do if Otis Nixon got on base....

Now is the time to take your pick-the Atlanta Braves or the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League playoffs, which open here Tuesday night. They appear to be an even...