Chicago Tribune Jerome Holtzman, who died Saturday at 81, was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a baseball-writing "lifer." Former Sun-Times colleague
Ron Rapoport adds: "I never knew a writer who loved baseball more. They'll never call anybody else 'the Dean' again, that's for sure." ||
New York Times: Holtzman's baseball library, some 4,000 volumes, along with his meticulously catalogued collection of documents, articles and other papers, was recently purchased for $300,000 by the Chicago Baseball Museum.
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Bill Dedman: "He'd let anybody come up to the house in Evanston to smoke a cigar and look at his files on Shoeless Joe."
(nbcsports.msnbc.com)
