And the winner of Thursday's Round 1 of the Great Quarterback Derby was ...

In the four days since he'd joined the White Sox on Friday in Kansas City, Ken Griffey Jr. had been a member of a team alone in first place, a team in second, and a team tied atop its division.

Already down 2-0 and not yet four outs into his day, Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano was paid an animated visit Sunday by his rookie catcher, Geovany Soto.

A couple of hours after hearing of Jerome Holtzman's death Monday, I shared with some colleagues an anecdote about the Hall of Fame baseball writer.