Traces the history of baseball in Chicago and explores the traditions and records of their two major league teams.

Product Description: Sportswriter Jerome Holtzman has been around the game of baseball for more than 60 years. During that span he’s met and worked alongside most of the greatest writers American sports and the game of baseball have ever known. In his sixth book, Jerome Holtzman on Baseball, he shares colorfully in-depth stories about the lives and careers of such legendary scribes as Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon, Shirley Povich, and many others...read more

Product Description: 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 thoughts and best columns are collected together in one edition as an official history of Major League Baseball.

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Looks at the nine men who have held the position of commissioner of baseball, from Judge Landis to Bud Selig (view table of contents)

Looks at the key seasons in the history of the ball club, its hall of famers, its managers and coaches, and its ballpark (view table of contents)

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

Originally appearing in such magazines as Esquire, Collier's, and the Saturday Evening Post, these twenty-seven stories about baseball include works by James Thurber, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Damon Runyon