MBA To Honor Red Sox Icon Castiglione
• The Massachusetts Broadcasters Association (MBA) will honor WEEI‘s legendary Boston Red Sox radio play-by-play announcer Joe Castiglione with its prestigious Broadcaster of the Year Award on Nov. 21 during the MBA’s annual Sound Bites conference at the Sheraton Framingham in Framingham, MA. He will be the 11th recipient of the MBA Broadcaster of the Year Award.
Castiglione, who announced his retirement prior to the conclusion of the 2024 Red Sox season spent an amazing 42 seasons in the Red Sox booth, making him the longest tenured radio broadcaster in Red Sox history.
Castiglione’s Red Sox legacy started in 1983 when he was paired with another Red Sox legend in Ken Coleman. In his 40+ years with the Red Sox, Castiglione was the voice for millions during the lowest lows and highest highs of the franchise. He’s maybe most famous for his call at the end of the 2004 World Series, which ended an 86-year World Series drought for the Sox, exclaiming, “For the first time in 86 years, the Red Sox have won baseball’s world championship. Can you believe it?!” The phrase would become a signature call.
Castiglione was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2014, the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2015, and this year was named the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award winner, presented annually by the Hall of Fame for excellence in broadcasting.
Tickets for Sound Bites 2024 can be purchased HERE through Nov. 8.
