CHICAGO - Jerome Holtzman, a longtime baseball writer who made the Hall of Fame, created the saves rule and later became Major League Baseball's official historian, has died. He was 81. Holtzman died ...

Longtime newspaperman, sportswriter and baseball historian Jerome Holtzman died Saturday. He was 81. But that is just a name, just a number. For 'the Dean', as he was known, was much more than that.

JEROME — "It would be a mistake to stop paying attention to our past," former Times-News editor Steve Crump wrote in one of his final columns before retiring in 2011.