1. Joseph Tait was an American sports broadcaster who was the play-by-play announcer on radio for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association and both TV and radio for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball.
17 Facts About Joe Tait
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Joe Tait won the Basketball Hall of Fame 2010 Curt Gowdy Media Award.
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Joe Tait was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was raised in Amboy, Illinois.
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Joe Tait attended Monmouth College in western Illinois, where he began his radio career.
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Joe Tait worked various jobs, including play-by-play on a local radio station in Monmouth, sports reports, and operations manager.
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Joe Tait next served as the network voice of Indiana University football, and was the pre-game host for the Indiana Pacers in 1969, in addition to being the station manager and morning host at WBOW in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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In 1970, Joe Tait began his longtime association with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who were in their first year of existence.
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Joe Tait was the radio announcer for the Indians from 1973 through 1979 along with Herb Score, and their TV announcer with a variety of partners from 1980 through 1987.
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Consequently, the station gave the broadcasting rights back to Stepien, and Joe Tait was released from his job as a result.
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On March 26,2008, Joe Tait announced his 3000th game for the Cavaliers, against the New Orleans Hornets, where he sat at half court.
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For fifteen seasons, Joe Tait was a play-by-play voice for the Cleveland Indians.
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From 1997 to 2004, Joe Tait served as the radio play-by-play voice of the Women's National Basketball Association Cleveland Rockers.
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In 2004, Joe Tait was selected as a founding member of the Indiana Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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Joe Tait called high school basketball games for WEOL-AM 930.
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In 2011 Tait co-authored his memoir, Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball with sports writer Terry Pluto.
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In July 2019, WEOL-AM 930 launched a weekly podcast with Joe Tait entitled Over the Timeline that served as an overview of his career, and included audio from Tait's extensive reel-to-reel tape collection.
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Joe Tait died in his home under hospice care March 10,2021, after a lengthy battle with cancer.