The pitch-perfect tribute to Joe Castiglione at Fenway Park on Thursday night was a reminder of how good New England baseball fans have had it through the generations when tuning in to Red Sox games on the radio.
Castiglione, who debuted in the Red Sox booth in 1983 — the year Carl Yastrzemski retired and Roger Clemens was drafted — has been welcome company through so many summers and, in those most satisfying seasons, autumns. Listening to him call a game is soothing and familiar, like hearing from a favorite Red Sox-adoring uncle.
Castiglione was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2014 and he has been a finalist for the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C.