Hall of Fame sports writer Jerome Holtzman has died. He created the category of "save" for pitchers in 1959 and it was adopted by major league baseball in 1969. (If they had adopted it when it was invented Elroy Face would probably be in the Hall of Fame.)Holtzman is on the left in the photo on opening day in 1957. Don't you wish those hats would come back in style?
From the Chicago Tribune where he worked for many years -
"Holtzman was a baseball beat writer and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times for three decades, starting in 1957, the year before the Dodgers' and Giants' migration from New York to California turned baseball into a truly national sport. He moved to the Tribune as baseball columnist in 1981 and was inducted into the writers' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, perhaps the most notable of the countless honors he achieved over his remarkable career."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-22-holtzman-obit-chicagojul22,0,6453919.story
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