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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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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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.'