Anthony Ezio Massarotti was born on October 28,1967 and is an American author and a former sportswriter for the Boston Herald and The Boston Globe.
11 Facts About Tony Massarotti
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Tony Massarotti has served as a color commentator for the Boston Red Sox, during their 2022 season.
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Tony Massarotti is a graduate of Waltham High School in Waltham, Massachusetts, and a 1989 graduate of Tufts University, where he majored in English and Classics.
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Tony Massarotti joined the Boston Herald in 1989 and covered the Boston Red Sox for the paper from 1994 through 2008.
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Tony Massarotti appeared on Boston's WEEI sports talk radio program The Big Show.
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In September 2008, Tony Massarotti joined the staff of The Boston Globe.
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However, after a brief hiatus, Tony Massarotti returned to writing for the Globe online sports blog in early 2014.
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On October 27,2005, Tony Massarotti published a column in which he accused Larry Lucchino and the Red Sox management of smearing general manager Theo Epstein during contract negotiations.
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Tony Massarotti documented that The New York Times owned a 17 percent ownership stake in the Red Sox and that local sports talk radio leader WEEI was currently in negotiations for Red Sox broadcast rights and paid Lucchino for a weekly radio appearance.
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Since 2009, Tony Massarotti has worked as the co-host of The Felger and Mazz Show, an afternoon sports talk show broadcast on Boston's 98.5 The Sports Hub.
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In February 2023, Tony Massarotti was suspended by the Sports Hub for a racially insensitive joke he made about two black men in New Orleans.