Boston Globe and Boston.com. He is the Globe's sports media columnist and a general sports columnist for Boston.com. He often appears as a guest on New England sports and talk radio programs, such as The Big JAB
. He founded the Touching All the Bases blog in December 2004.
Education and work history
Finn, a graduate of
Boston Globe
's online newspaper in August 2008. In 2009 he became a sports media columnist for the paper.
Touching All the Bases
Touching All the Bases is a blog created by Finn in December 2004. It began as a personal blog inspired by the Red Sox' 2004 world championship. It became incorporated into Boston.com as part of the sports section in 2008. Finn remains the sole contributor to the blog. Through the blog he hosts live chats centered around significant games and/or events in the New England sports community and the sporting world in general.
Notable career highlights
While working for the
Maine Campus in 1992-1993 he covered the winning season for the Maine Black Bears
who went 42-1-2 for the season.
In 2000 Chad Finn finished third in the National Associated Press Sports Editor's Contest for column writing.
While working for the Concord Monitor he received multiple awards for writing and page design.
He wrote a weekly column for
Fox Sports (USA)
in 2008.
He has been the writer for every edition of Maple Street Press's [1]Boston Red Sox annuals as well as editor of the New England Patriots annuals for 2009-2010.
He has contributed as a guest columnist at Baseball Prospectus multiple times.
He wrote a profile on Ellis Burks for the e-book Hall of Nearly Great, which featured writers such as Joe Posnanski, Rob Neyer and Jonah Keri.
In 2010 he contributed to an APSE winning writing project on the defensive metrics in baseball.
In 2012 and '13, Touching All the Bases was the runner-up in editor and Publisher's best sports blog category of the Eppy awards. His blog finished second to Grantland and theMMQB.com respectively.
