Jerome Holtzman
Jerome Holtzman
Jerome Holtzmanwas an American sportswriter known for his writings on baseball who served as the official historian for Major League Baseball from 1999 until his death...
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Years later, I was in Baltimore one day and I talked to (then-manager) Johnny Oates. He said, 'You changed the game. You created the ninth-inning pitcher.' I said, 'It was the managers who did it. They started holding back their best relief pitchers to get saves.'
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Losing is the great American sin.
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I looked into it and in nine or 10 of his wins, he gave up the tying run but got the win,
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He was a great manager. He never missed a pitch. He had been a catcher, and one of the things he was very good at was that he knew when a pitcher was losing his stuff. He could anticipate so well. He just wouldn't wait until he was clobbered.
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It all has to with his being a competitor. I'm sure a lot of guys could have gone on (as long) but they didn't have the fire in their belly.
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a shortstop with some, but certainly not overwhelming promise.
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You're missing someone who should be high on the list. Al Lopez knew pitching. He knew when a guy was losing it. He didn't take the pitcher out after he lost the lead; he took him out before he lost it. He was a catcher and knew the game. He's first on my list.
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always thinking ahead two or three innings ahead. Whitey Herzog was a terrific baseball mind, and nobody's better than Bobby Cox.