Joseph John Castiglione was born on March 2,1947 and is an American radio announcer for the Boston Red Sox baseball team, an author and lecturer.
17 Facts About Joe Castiglione
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Joe Castiglione was born in Hamden, Connecticut, and graduated from Colgate University with a BA in Liberal Arts.
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Joe Castiglione was the radio voice of Colgate football and baseball while a student.
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Joe Castiglione began his career in Youngstown, Ohio, broadcasting football games for $15 a game, and as sports reporter for WFMJ-TV in 1972.
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Joe Castiglione states that he was a New York Yankees fan as a kid, then closely followed the Pittsburgh Pirates because they were the closest to Youngstown, and likewise became an Indians fan after moving to Cleveland.
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Joe Castiglione called a handful of Milwaukee Brewers games for pay-cable channel SelecTV in 1981.
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Joe Castiglione joined the Red Sox broadcast team in 1983, teamed with Ken Coleman.
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Joe Castiglione admitted not being in the booth when the ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 World Series, as he was in the clubhouse covering Red Sox' seemingly impending victory celebration.
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Joe Castiglione became nationally known when the team won the 2004 World Series, with his broadcast of the end of the game.
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In 2011, O'Brien became the lead announcer with Joe Castiglione moving back to the secondary announcing role.
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Joe Castiglione fell out of his chair, and proceeded to finish the commentary with co-commentator Neverett after the incident.
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On July 28,2022, Joe Castiglione was honored in a pregame ceremony at Fenway Park for his 40 years of broadcasting the Red Sox; the ceremony included Roger Clemens presenting Joe Castiglione with a plaque.
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Joe Castiglione has occasionally called college football and college basketball, most notably including games of Lafayette College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he worked alongside his oldest son, Duke, now with WCVB in Boston.
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Joe Castiglione is currently a lecturer in the department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where he teaches a course on sports broadcasting.
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Joe Castiglione has taught at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire.
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In 2004, Joe Castiglione published a book called Broadcast Rites and Sites: I Saw It on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox.
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However, much of the book is about the 30 years that Joe Castiglione spent in the broadcast booth and the personal relationships he built up over that time, woven into the ups and downs in Red Sox history.