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Jerome Holtzman: 1926-2008
2008-07-21 19:04
by Bob Timmermann

Jerome Holtzman, a longtime baseball writer in Chicago for both the Sun-Times and the Tribune, passed away Saturday in Evanston at the age of 81.

Holtzman received the Baseball Hall of Fame's Spink Award in 1989. He also popularized the use of the save statistic and is often considered its father, although Holtzman did not envision the rule as it is set up today.

After his retirement from the Tribune in 1999, Commissioner Bud Selig appointed Holtzman as the first "official historian" of Major League Baseball.

 

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