Bill Chastain

Bill Chastain began his journalism career as a freelance writer shortly after graduating from Georgia Tech in 1979. Some of the more notable publications where his stories have appeared over the years include: Razor Magazine, Nation’s Business, SPORT Magazine, and Inside Sports. Chastain worked as a sports reporter for The St. Petersburg Times and The St. Petersburg Evening Independent before going to The Tampa Tribune in 1990, where he worked for twelve years as a columnist and sports reporter. While with the Tribune he also served as a correspondent for Sports Illustrated. Currently he covers Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays for MLB.com.

Chastain wrote The Steve Spurrier Story: From Heisman to Head Ball Coach, a biography of the former University of Florida and current head coach at The University of South Carolina; Payne at Pinehurst: The Greatest U.S. Open Ever, a narrative based on the 1999 U.S. Open for Thomas Dunne Books; Purpose and Passion: Bobby Pruett and the Marshall Years for Mid-Atlantic Highland Press; Steel Dynasty, The Team That Changed the NFL for Triumph Books; and The Streak, a novel for Publish America.