Jerome Holtzman

By Carlos Sastre (above), his first Tour de France championship. The 33-year-old Spaniard took the yellow jersey on July 23 after Stage 17—the most rigorous climb—and held on to it for the final four stages,...

One of the more imaginative projects in the checkered history of sports publishing has been undertaken by Jerome Holtzman, the respected baseball writer for the Chicago Sun-Times and the author of a fine book on...

"The whole history of baseball," Bernard Malamud has said, "has the quality of mythology." Indeed it does, with its legendary heroes, epic contests and ineradicable statistics, and few writers have used it more...