Paul Sullivan: 'Ball Four' was salacious, funny and exposed athletes as human. It's also why Jim Bouton became a pariah with his peers.
CHICAGO - Jerome Holtzman, the Hall of Fame baseball writer from Chicago who invented the save rule 60 years ago, decided late in life he wanted to sell his archives and declutter his Evanston home.
Holtzman, nicknamed "The Dean" by his fellow scribes, had a few thousand books in his third-story library, including many he wrote. They were meticulously catalogued by name and author on index cards and filed in alphabetical order.
Late in the 2007 season, Jerome informed me of his
