No Cheering in the Press Box by Mr Jerome Holtzman

Commissioner Bud Selig named Jerome Holtzman the first official historian of Major League Baseball in June 1999. Holtzman spent more than 56 years in Chicago as a beat journalist and columnist covering baseball. He worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1981 to 1999 after 38 years at the Chicago Sun-Times (formerly the Daily Times). For more than 30 years, Holtzman contributed weekly to the Sporting News and had hundreds of stories published in magazines such as Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, Sport, and Baseball Digest. Holtzman received the J.G. Taylor Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.

The Taylor Spink Award is given yearly to one baseball writer who has made significant contributions to the sport of baseball writing. Holtzman coined the term save for relief pitchers in 1959, and it became an official statistic in 1966. Holtzman has already published six books, the most recent of which being No Cheering in the Press Box. Holtzman and his wife, Marilyn, still live in the Chicago area.