Murray Chass (born October 12, 1938, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [1] is an American baseball blogger.
He previously wrote for The New York Times and before that the Associated Press on baseball and sports legal and labor relations.
He took a buyout from the Times, along with Supreme Court writer Linda Greenhouse and dozens of others, in April 2008.
Chass graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in political science where he was a writer and editor for the Pitt News.
[2] In 1956 he "audaciously" made an appointment with the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to pursue his "future of a newspaperman".
From August 1984, through March 2008 he wrote 1,155 Sunday notebooks, developing more than 4,000 items ranging in length from one paragraph to more than 1,000 words.
"[4] Baseball Prospectus editor Nate Silver published an open letter responding to Chass' comments.