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“I just had scans and they’re clean, so as far as I know, I’m cancer-free. Everything is good.”
Joe Castiglione said he’s cancer-free in an interview with The Boston Globe. (Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff)
Longtime Boston Red Sox radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione revealed to Chad Finn of The Boston Globe that he’s cancer-free after undergoing treatment — including radiation — over the winter.
“Everything is fine now,” Castiglione told Finn. “I just had scans and they’re clean, so as far as I know, I’m cancer-free. Everything is good.”
Castiglione, who turned 79 years old in March, told Finn that he had surgery for sarcoma in his right leg in October.
He retired from being the Red Sox’ radio play-by-play voice after the 2024 season — the same year that he was named the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, which is presented each year to a broadcaster who has made “major contributions to baseball.”
Even though Castiglione stepped away from the radio booth in 2024, he has remained around the game of baseball. As Finn noted, Castiglione called approximately 10 Red Sox games from Fort Myers, Fla. during Red Sox spring training this year.
According to Finn, Castiglione will return to the Red Sox booth to call 10 or so games during the 2026 season — likely home games on Sunday afternoons.
During Castiglione’s 42 years calling Red Sox games, he was on the mic for four World Series titles (2004, 2007, 2013, 2018).
Conor Ryan is a staff writer covering the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox for Boston.com, a role he has held since 2023.
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