Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Baseball Chicago Style by Jerome Holtzman Baseball Chicago Style by Jerome Holtzman. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 659614cc5d108474 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Baseball, Chicago Style. by Mr. Jerome Holtzman , George Vass, S.J. Baseball, Chicago Style explores the exciting, enticing, enduring and frequently frustrating panorama of our national pastime. For the first time the colorful saga of Major League Baseball in Chicago is wrapped between the covers of a single book sure to appeal to both Cubs and White Sox fans. No writers are better suited to survey it than Holtzman, a Hall of Fame member and the first official historian of Major League Baseball, and partner Vass, both of whom covered the teams for many seasons. When it comes to baseball . Read More. Baseball, Chicago Style explores the exciting, enticing, enduring and frequently frustrating panorama of our national pastime. For the first time the colorful saga of Major League Baseball in Chicago is wrapped between the covers of a single book sure to appeal to both Cubs and White Sox fans. No writers are better suited to survey it than Holtzman, a Hall of Fame member and the first official historian of Major League Baseball, and partner Vass, both of whom covered the teams for many seasons. When it comes to baseball tradition, Chicago is second to none, the sole city to embrace two major league teams without interruption from their founding to the present. The Cubs haven't missed a beat since 1876 as the oldest uninterrupted franchise in all pro sports, while the White Sox have challenged them without letup since 1901 for the backing of Chicago's vast fandom. The Cubs' best known exploit of the last 55 seasons may have been to not win the pennant in 1969, the year of the Great Collapse. Not even division titles in 1984 and 1989, or a "wild card" post-season excursion in 1998, all of which ended in tears, have displaced the sorrow of 1969 in the collective memory of Cubs fans. But those who scoff at Cubs' tradition willfully ignore several glorious periods of their history. It's true they've won only two World Series (1907-08), but they've played in 10, far more than most teams. And their 1906 record of 116-36, for a percentage of .847, is unmatched in major league history. What's best-known nationally about the White Sox is that they "threw" the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The dastardly act, commemorated in history, literature, film and television, transformedtheir previously innocuous nickname of Black Sox, based on the hue of their uniforms in previous seasons, into an invidious epithet which clings to them like a burr to corduroy. The tale of stinginess, greed and the betrayal of "the faith of 50 million people" forms the book's first chapter. It has never been told so fully and objectively without glib sentiment obscuring its uglier aspects. Even if Chicago's teams have waged war by frequently marching to the rear since the White Sox last brought the World Series to the city in 1959, more than four decades ago, they've played the game with a gusto that belongs solely to Baseball, Chicago Style. Read Less. ISBN 13: 9781566251709. Baseball, Chicago Style explores the exciting, enticing, enduring and frequently frustrating panorama of our national pastime. For the first time the colorful saga of Major League Baseball in Chicago is wrapped between the covers of a single book sure to appeal to both Cubs and White Sox fans. No writers are better suited to survey it than Holtzman, a Hall of Fame member and the first official historian of Major League Baseball, and partner Vass, both of whom covered the teams for many seasons. When it comes to baseball tradition, Chicago is second to none, the sole city to embrace two major league teams without interruption from their founding to the present. The Cubs haven't missed a beat since 1876 as the oldest uninterrupted franchise in all pro sports, while the White Sox have challenged them without letup since 1901 for the backing of Chicago's vast fandom. The Cubs' best known exploit of the last 55 seasons may have been to not win the pennant in 1969, the year of the Great Collapse. Not even division titles in 1984 and 1989, or a "wild card" post-season excursion in 1998, all of which ended in tears, have displaced the soorow of 1969 in the collective momory of Cubs fans. But those who scoff at Cubs' tradition willfully ignore several glorious periods of their history. It's true they've won only two World Series (1907-08), but they've played in 10, far more than most teams. And their 1906 records of 116-36, for a percentage of .847, is unmatched in major league history. What's best-known nationally about the White Sox is that they "threw" the 1919 World Series to the cincinnati Reds. The dastardly act, commemorated in history, literature, film and television, transformed their previously innocuous nickname of Black Sox, based on the hue of their uniforms in previous seasons, into an invidious epithet which clings to them like a burr to corduroy. The tale of stinginess, greed and the betrayal of "the faith of 50 million people" forms the book's first chapter. It has never been told so fully and objectively without glib sentiment obscuring its uglier aspects. Even if Chicago's teams have waged war by frequently marching to the rear since the White Sox last brought the World Series to the city in 1959, more than four decades ago, they've played the game with a gusto that belongs solely to Baseball, Chicago Style. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Author Jerome Holtzman was named the first official historian for Major League Baseball in June 1999 by Commission Bud Selig. He lives in Chicago, IL. Author George Vass served in the sports department of the Chicago-Sun Times and has contributed a monthly article to Baseball Digest magazine since 1965. He lives in Chicago, IL. Jerome Holtzman. Jerry Holtzman wrote for his hometown papers in Chicago for over 50 years. Beginning as a copyboy at the Chicago Daily News in 1943, Holtzman wrote for the paper through its merger with the Chicago Sun , with a two-year gap when he served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He left the Sun-Times in 1981 for the Chicago Tribune . He remained at the Tribune for 19 years. He was nicknamed The Dean by long-time friend Billy Williams because he had been covering the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox seemingly forever. His retirement was only from newsprint; in his new position as official historian of Major League Baseball starting in 1999, Holtzman wrote several columns on mlb.com. Among Holtzman's contributions to the game during his sixty year career, was the creation of the modern save rule. He was also responsible for the entry on baseball in the Encyclopedia Brittanica . He was a regular foe of Bill James, who once wrote an article "Jerome Holtzman has a cow", belittling the older writer. The two sparred over numerous baseball topics over the years; the antagonism seemed to be mutual in nature. Holtzman was famous for the decision to revert to counting walks in 1887 as hits, reviving an old debate. His position on the matter was rejected by most other researchers. Holtzman won the 1989 J.G. Taylor Spink Award. He won the Red Smith Award in 1997 and he was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. He is the author of a number of books on baseball, the most famous being No Cheering in the Press Box , an oral history of baseball reporting first published in 1974 and expanded in 1995. Holtzman died in 2008, four days after suffering a massive stroke. He had been in ill health for some years. He was only replaced as MLB's official historian in 2011, when John Thorn was appointed to the post. Holtzman, Jerome 1926–2008. See index for CA sketch: Born July 12, 1926, in Chicago, IL; died of a stroke, July 19, 2008, in Evanston, IL. Sportswriter, sports historian, columnist, editor, and author. Upon his retirement from the Chicago Tribune, Holtzman was honored by baseball commissioner Bud Selig as the official historian of baseball. Unofficially he had held the title for decades. Anchored in Chicago, Holtzman observed the game throughout his career, as a baseball reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and its predecessor company from 1957 until 1981, when he moved to the Chicago Tribune as a baseball columnist. He followed the sport for nearly thirty years with his hometown teams, the Cubs and the White Sox, but his knowledge of the sport was encyclopedic and, according to sources, his reporting was both fair and reliable.