Any word from Jerome Holtzman was welcome. He was a gruff man but a gentleman, a newspaper bulldog but an old softie, a U.S. Marine to his core but a kind, considerate, cultured soul who always ...

Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagu ...

Jerome Holtzman, 81, a baseball writer who made the Hall of Fame, created the saves rule and later became Major League Baseball's official historian, died July 19 in Evanston, Ill., after a stroke.

Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to baseball Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday in Evanston, Ill., after a long illness. He was 81.

I don't know if Jerome Holtzman was larger than life, but I do know life is smaller without him. Jerome Holtzman with former Cubs manager Don Zimmer in 1989. Chicago Tribune He died last Saturday ...

And "The Jerome Holtzman Baseball Reader" (Triumph Books, $19.95) is worth a lot more than that. For almost 50 years, Jerry Holtzman -- Jerome Holtzman to his readers in the Chicago Sun-Times and ...

CHICAGO -- Jerome Holtzman, a longtime baseball writer who made the Hall of Fame, created the saves rule and later became Major League Baseball's official historian, has died. He was 81.

Longtime newspaperman, sportswriter and baseball historian Jerome Holtzman died Saturday. He was 81. But that is just a name, just a number. For 'the Dean', as he was known, was much more than that.

We were in the press box at Wrigley Field, on a summer night during the home run mania of 1998, and Jerome Holtzman was on the phone with the desk. At age 72, he had interviewed Sammy Sosa ...

I hope Nathan sends Jerome Holtzman's heirs a fruit basket. -- a. He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches for at least one inning; -- b. He enters the game ...