Can you believe it joe castiglione

Can You Believe It? Overview Reviews Author Biography Media Book Signings Press Releases Overview Behind the scenes play-by-play from the revered radio announcer Joe Castiglione is one of a few select announcers whose voice harkens fans back to the home field of their favorite team. In this chronicle, the beloved broadcaster offers his insider account of one of the most dominant baseball teams of the past decade—from the heartbreaking World Series and the turbulent s to the magical American League Central Series and World Series, the championship season, and the state of the team today.

Reviews "This new book by long-time Red Sox play-by-play man Joe Castiglione with an assist from Douglas Lyons is a baseball fan's dream, rich in anecdote, full of humor and vivid memories. See Author. Media Can You Believe It? An article posted on Boston. View More. Book Signings Past Events Dec.

Offering an insider's account, Castiglione recaps his exciting time spent with one the MLB's most cherished teams with memorable events such as: The heartbreaking World Series collapse against the Mets The turbulent 's when the team failed to return to the World Series The magical rally in the ALCS culminating in a World Series championship A return to glory in led by David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez and Mike Lowell The current team and where it's headed after a disastrous finish in A riveting insider's glance at one of baseball's most popular teams, Can You Believe It provides Boston Red Sox fans with a thrilling new perspective on a team they have always loved and cherished.

Book Description Hardback. Language: English. Brand new Book. In this chronicle, the beloved broadcaster offers his insider account of one of the most dominant baseball teams of the past decade--from the heartbreaking World Series and the turbulent s to the magical American League Central Series and World Series, the championship season, and the state of the team today.

Castiglione takes fans behind the microphone and into the champagne soaked clubhouse, hotels, and back rooms where even media had no access, and recounts such tales of his tenure as his friendship with Pedro Martinez and what it was like to ride in the Duck Tour boats during Boston's victory parades. Seller Inventory AAG Seller Inventory BZV New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

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View all copies of this ISBN edition:. Synopsis About this title Joe Castiglione is one of a few select announcers whose voice harkens fans back to the home field of their favorite team.

Review : "This new book by long-time Red Sox play-by-play man Joe Castiglione with an assist from Douglas Lyons is a baseball fan's dream, rich in anecdote, full of humor and vivid memories. Buy New Learn more about this copy. Joe Castiglione means a great deal to the Red Sox, especially to the fans. Players come and go. Some stay in Boston for a year or so, some longer. I was there for eight seasons. But Joe is always there. His voice is a constant throughout New England. Joe has that relationship with fans, and he really makes it special for them.

We were on the buses and the planes and in the clubhouses together every day. In St. I actually had a record album of highlights from the Cardinals World Series narrated by Harry Caray. I used to play it every night in my room. Vin Scully of the Dodgers was also one of my favorites. Joe Castiglione has his own unique style. Joe goes back to my dad, Tito, who was a major leaguer. People tell me that even though Joe is not a homer, they can tell whether the Red Sox are winning or losing by the tone of his voice.

That brings the total to 5, But every game is different. Will there be an exciting play like an inside-the-park home run or a triple play? A no-hitter? Will some rookie make his debut?

Will he swing at the first pitch and slam it for a home run? A walk-off home run? Sometimes I hear people use the expression meaningless game. Sometimes they are referring to the last two or three games of the regular season after a team has either clinched a playoff berth or been mathematically eliminated. Every major league pitcher, in any game, is trying to get the batter out. Every batter is trying to get a hit. Every outfielder wants to make the catch or make the throw to keep it to a single.

Every infielder is trying to field that bunt. And when a team misses the playoffs by just one game that 1—0 loss in April where somebody took a called third strike to end the game seems even more important. In , I saw the St. The Miracle play at the stadium the Twins use for spring training games. My father, Frank, the son of Sicilian immigrants, grew up in New Haven and walked to Yale University, which he attended on a full scholarship. He then went to medical school in New York City and later worked as a general practitioner in his old New Haven neighborhood.

After serving in World War II, he decided to specialize and became a dermatologist, practicing until the age of 85, three years before his death in November Dad taught me to read baseball scores and box scores before my ABCs. He was a Yankee fan back then. New York was much closer to Hamden than Boston. I loved to play sports, especially baseball, but realized by the age of 10 that being a professional athlete was not in the genes.

I became a baseball card collector and flipper, a fungo hitter, and a Wiffle ball player. Although my friends and neighbors thought I was crazy, I would pretend to broadcast my backyard fungo games daily.

I went to Colgate University, where I majored in history. I was Joey C, the Big Cheese! More importantly, I got the opportunity as a freshman to broadcast Colgate football and basketball games. I did every football game, home and away. But Colgate baseball games were not broadcast.

The games were considered too long and too dull. Also, the baseball field had no electricity for our equipment. That was the year I went to my first game at Fenway Park, standing in the bleachers to watch the Washington Senators beat the Impossible Dream team on a late-inning double by Hank Allen.

I was aiming toward a broadcasting career, either in sports or as a disc jockey. I concentrated on a career as a sportscaster and I sent out lots of audition tapes. But when I got no good responses, I got a job broadcasting high school and then semi-pro football games and doing a sports-talk show in Meriden, Connecticut. Later, I became a super-utility announcer doing spot duty on sports and news, and as a TV movie host.

I also was a color analyst on Syracuse University basketball games. This was my first TV job and I enjoyed it. Five nights a week, I did the pm and pm sports wrap-ups. I also covered Youngstown State football games and high school basketball and football games.

I would go to Pittsburgh to do interviews and stories on the Pirates when the Youngstown station would let me have a cameraman.

But my station was very cheap, so I continued to send out audition tapes to stations in bigger cities. Neither one of us skied. They had an opening for a reporter to do sports updates and news. My tape got me an interview, and it also got me excited.

It would be quite a step up from Youngstown. But they never filled the position. Of course, if I had taken that job in Pittsburgh, I would not have met Jan. I went to my station manager in Youngstown to ask his permission, which he refused to grant.

I should just have done the shows without asking. This only strengthened my determination to move out of Youngstown. While I was overjoyed to get out of Youngstown, where there was no room for advancement, the friends I made there lasted forever, including, of course, Jan and her family. Just down the street from our apartment in Broadview Heights was the headquarters of radio station WJW. I filled in there on weekends. I was working from pm to am. Four years later, I turned down a job offer in major league baseball as the public address announcer for the Cleveland Indians.

I was supposed to do a piece for The Today Show that morning about the fight but I canceled and went to the hospital in Willoughby, Ohio. Thomas Frank Castiglione was born at pm. I was there.

Over the next few years, with changes in station management, I was demoted from a broadcaster to a producer, but I stayed with it because we needed the money. Football Hall of Famer Paul Warfield was hired for my on-air job. I was back on the air. Not bad. Flynn, who answered his own phone, interviewed me on a Monday. He told me to call him the following Wednesday, February 14, at pm to find out whether I got the job. He was going to make the official announcement in an hour.

I called Jan, my parents, and the rest of my family. More than letters and notes awaited me when I returned to our home in Solon, Ohio. Everyone who knew me knew how long I had dreamed of and worked toward a job broadcasting major league baseball. The Indians trained in Tucson, Arizona, a city I had never visited.

Although for economic reasons my station was not going to broadcast any spring training games, my family and I spent two weeks in Tucson. Jan was pregnant with our daughter Kate.

During my first year with the Indians, their manager was former catcher Jeff Torborg. We have remained friends for more than 30 years.

My father and my Uncle Charlie were in Boston for my first game. After one game in Boston, we flew home to Cleveland. Our plane was hit by lightning, a scary experience that reduced one player to tears. Unfortunately, the Indians also had a tendency to lose. They lost 10 in a row in June. But we were in Chicago and United Airlines was on strike. Once I got word that Jan had gone into labor and that a neighbor had taken her to the hospital, I made other travel arrangements and arrived at the hospital just after am.

Mary Katherine Kate Castiglione arrived at pm.