Joe Castiglione

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Joseph J. Castiglione, Jr. (born 2 March 1947 Hamden, Connecticut) is a radio announcer for the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

1 Early life and career
2 Career with the Red Sox
3 Non-Red Sox work
4 External links

[edit] Early life and career

Castiglione graduated from Colgate University with a BA in Liberal Arts. Castiglione often playfully ridicules Colgate's sports teams during Red Sox broadcasts (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. His first major job as a sportscaster was in Cleveland in 1979, where he called Cleveland Indians games and did sports reporting for WKYC television.

[edit] Career with the Red Sox

Castiglione joined the Red Sox broadcast team in 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 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, Boston, 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.

[edit] Non-Red Sox work

He occasionally calls college football and basketball, most recently including games of Lafayette College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he worked alongside his oldest son, Duke, now with Fox 5 News in New York and formerly with New York 1 News.