Joe Castiglione

Joe Castiglione

:"This article is for Joe Castiglione the broadcaster. For Joe Castiglione the Athletic Director see Joe Castiglione (athletic director)."

Joseph J. Castiglione, Jr. (born 2 March 1947) is an American radio announcer for the Boston Red Sox baseball team, an author and college Lecturer.

Early life and career

Castiglione was born in Hamden, Connecticut and graduated from Colgate University with a BA in Liberal Arts. He was the radio voice of Colgate football and baseball while a student. He then received a MFA from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, he worked a variety of on-air jobs for WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV). He began his career in Youngstown, Ohio broadcasting football games for $15 a game, and as sports reporter for WFMJ-TV in 1972. His first major job as a sportscaster was in Cleveland in by|1979, where he called Cleveland Indians games and did sports reporting for WKYC-TV. Joe is Italian.

Career with the Red Sox

Castiglione joined the Red Sox broadcast team in by|1983, teamed with Ken Coleman. He 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. After Coleman's retirement in 1989, Bob Starr became the lead announcer for the Red Sox. After Starr's departure at the end of the 1991 season, Castiglione became the team's lead radio announcer along with Jerry Trupiano. Castiglione became nationally known when the team won the 2004 World Series, with his broadcast of the end of the game. During the 2007 season he shared announcing duties with a rotating duo of Dave O'Brien and Glenn Geffner. With Glenn Geffner leaving for the Florida Marlins broadcast booth, Castiglione will share the booth with Dave O'Brien, Dale Arnold or Jon Rish in 2008.

Castiglione claims to have been a New York Yankees fan as a kid. He said in his autobiography that he then closely followed the Pittsburgh Pirates because they were the closest to Youngstown, and likewise became an Indians fan after moving to Cleveland.

Castiglione is currently a Lecturer in the department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where he teaches a course on Sports Broadcasting. NESN Red Sox play-by-play man Don Orsillo was among his students and broadcast booth interns. He has also taught at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.

Non-Red Sox work

He occasionally has called college football and basketball, most notably including games of Lafayette College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he worked alongside his oldest son, Duke, now with WNYW in New York.

Book

In 2004, Castiglione published a book called "Broadcast Rites and Sites: I Saw It on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox" (ISBN 1-58-979324-2). The book is a collection of stories from his days covering the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox. It was updated in 2006 to include material on the 2004 World Series.

External links

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* [http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x995.xml Joe Castiglione] WQUN - Quinnipiac University
* [http://www.sonsofsamhorn.net/wiki/index.php/Joe_Castiglione Joe Castiglione] Bio at Sons of Sam Horn


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