Murray Chass on Baseball: Mike Piazza: His Bat and His Back
baseballthinkfactory.org 3/5/2009 — Murray Chass on Tricloinsane. Early in the column Joel Sherman writes about Piazza’s acne-covered back. This was a physical feature I had always noticed with Piazza. Not that reporters spend their time in clubhouses looking at guys’ bare backs, but ...

Murray Chass Q&A
mlbtraderumors.com 3/13/2009 — Murray Chass covered baseball for the New York Times for almost 40 years, and now his work can be found at MurrayChass.com .  Chass answered questions for MLB Trade Rumors over email recently. MLB Trade Rumors: You could be called a ...

The Rocket That Fell To Earth And Landed On Top Of Mike Piazza [Mike Piazza]
deadspin.com 3/23/2009 — Jeff Pearlman 's " The Rocket That Fell To Earth " extinguishes the leftover burning embers of Roger Clemens' baseball dignity in one big 320-page stomp. But Mike Piazza won't be pleased with this book either. Murray Chass was ridiculed for ...

Why Didn’t the New York Times Let Murray Chass Write About Mike Piazza’s Bacne?
thebiglead.com 3/5/2009 — Ornery, sabermetric-challenged former New York Times columnist Murray Chass, who now blogs , claims he tried to write about the glaring and grotesque bacne of Hall of Fame-lock Mike Piazza about 10 years ago. And the paper wouldn’t let him.  ...

Murray Chass Isn’t Quite Finished With Metal Mike
cantstopthebleeding.com 3/9/2009 — “Last week’s column on Mike Piazza has drawn more reader e-mail than any of the 97 columns that have appeared on this site,” boasts former NY Times baseball scribe Murray Chass , loathe to credit any portion of the blogosphere for this remarkable upturn in traffic. Instead, under ...

Mike Piazza; Future Mets Coach?
metsinfo.blogspot.com 3/11/2009 — Team Italy has been eliminated from World Baseball Classic competition; meaning Mike Piazza will go home, but it may not be for long. Piazza has a desire to coach in the majors in some capacity and...

Mike Piazza A Steroid User?
FanIQ.com 3/6/2009 — I'm not sure how exactly to say this politely, but Mike Piazza was known to have a bit a bacne problem while he was a New York Met. I'm not sure how widely known that was, but it was certainly known by more than a few people. Why am I bringing this ...

Yes and No
faithandfear.blogharbor.com 3/25/2009 — The phone rang at my desk on May 22, 1998. I didn't recognize the voice. "Hi," someone said. "You're gonna have Mike Piazza on the Mets, but he might or might not use some substances that aren't exactly on the up and up to keep his performance at ...

Fire Murray Chass. Oh, right, someone already did.
thenoonerblog.com 3/5/2009 — The following format is completely unoriginal. It is a tribute to Fire Joe Morgan, which some of us think is the funniest Web site in the history of Internet. We read this piece on Mike Piazza’s bacne on Murray Chass’ blog and ...

My most recent offering at The Hardball Times takes a look at the career values of Mike Piazza (all...
beyondtheboxscore.com 3/12/2009 — My most recent offering at The Hardball Times takes a look at the career values of Mike Piazza (all hit), Ivan Rodriguez (all field), and Johnny Bench (a lot of each) -- good idea, Dan. To give away the punchline in the incessant Piazza vs. Bench debate, Piazza leads in career hitting RAA by ...

Mike Piazza: The Cheater? — Bleacher Report - MLB 3/25/2009
Any of you have a friend who is a Mets fan and over the years hasn't shut up about the greatness of Mike Piazza? Well, this one's for you. Here's an excerpt from the new book "The Rocket That Fell To Earth." This comes directly from Lisa Swan's ...

The Greatest Play In MLB History — Bleacher Report - MLB 3/27/2009
The greatest play in MLB history was not a walk-off long ball, nor was it an amazing catch. It was one home run. A few days after the terrifying and horrible events of September 11, 2001, Mike Piazza hit a game-winning two-run homer. New York was ...