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FEATURES All That’s Jazz By Christina De Nicola On His Way to Being the Face of a Franchise, the Marlins’ Jazz Chisholm Sets Some Lofty Goals Just Getting Started By Brian McTaggart After an Epic Postseason, Astros’ Shortstop Jeremy Peña is Focused on an Encore Where Have All the Nicknames Gone? By Bill Madden Once a Staple of the Game, Player Nicknames Have Gone the Way of Single-Admission Doubleheaders Third Annual Lifetime Achievement Award Hall of Famer Joe Torre is Baseball Digest’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Burning Desire By Todd Rosiak Already One of MLB’s Top Starting Pitchers, Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes Looks Inward in His Quest for Sustained Excellence ‘Is This Possible?’ By Anthony McCarron Pat Hughes, the Only Cubs’ Radio Man Ever to Utter the Words ‘The Cubs Win the World Series,’ is Headed to Cooperstown DEPARTMENTS First Pitch By Rick Cerrone The Fans Speak Out Baseball Quick Quiz By Howie Karpin Q&A With Ben Cherington By John Perrotto A Candid Conversation with the Man Charged with Rebuilding a Historic Franchise Crossword Challenge By Larry Humber The Game I’ll Never Forget By Fred McGriff As Told to Bruce Levine and Joel Bierig So You Think You Know Baseball? By Rich Marazzi Archives By Red Smith On a Leg That Was Almost Shot Off — From May 1948