Sportswriter Jerome Holtzman has been around the game of baseball for more than 60 years. During that span he has met and worked alongside most of the greatest

This book explores the exciting, enticing, enduring and frequently frustrating panorama of America's national pastime. For the first time the colourful saga of

Jerome Holtzman has covered the sport of baseball for the "Chicago Daily Times," "Chicago Sun-Times," and "Chicago Tribune" since the mid 1940s, now his thought

Interviews eighteen of the writers who dominated sports reporting in the interwar period, including Dan Daniel, Paul Gallico, Red Smith, Marshall Hunt, and John