Murray Chass

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. In 1956, he "audaciously" made an appointment with the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to pursue his "future of a newspaperman." He joined the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1962, when he worked for the Associated Press in Pittsburgh. He joined the New York Times in 1969, and started covering the New York Yankees the following year. In 1986, he was made the paper's national baseball writer. ==Career==

From 1979–1980 he served as chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Chass has authored numerous books on the business, labor and legal relations of sports, baseball in particular, among his works: ''The Yankees: The Four Fabulous Eras of Baseball's Most Famous Team, which was published by Random House in 1979; Power Football, published by Dutton in 1973, and Pittsburgh Steelers: The Long Climb, published by Prentice Hall in 1973. He has contributed to Great Pro Football Games and Greatest Basketball Games''. He also authored several articles in Dutton's Best Sports Stories series. Baseball Prospectus editor Nate Silver published an open letter responding to Chass' comments. He took a buyout from the Times, along with Supreme Court writer Linda Greenhouse and dozens of others, in April 2008; that same year Chass started a blog, "Murray Chass on Baseball," where he has written hundreds of columns. It was last updated in 2020. Chass is a voter for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ==Awards and honors==

Chass was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame after winning the BBWAA Career Excellence Award in 2003. Chass was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania in 2003. ==Personal life==

Chass married Ellen Rotberg Kraemer on September 30, 1975. ==References==