Joe Castiglione announces retirement after 2024 Red Sox season

BOSTON — After serving as the radio voice of the Boston Red Sox for more than four decades, Hall of Famer Joe Castiglione announced Sunday that he will retire at the end of the 2024 season.

Castiglione has been calling Red Sox radio games since 1983, and his 42 seasons with the franchise are the longest in team history. His iconic voice called the final outs of each of Boston’s four World Series victories from 2004 to 2018.

The Red Sox will honor his career before the final regular-season game at Fenway Park on Sept. 29.

“After 42 seasons with the Red Sox and more than 6,500 games, I have decided it is time to retire from regular broadcasting,” Castiglione said in a statement announcing his retirement. “While I feel at the peak of my career, having been fortunate enough to call four World Series championships and receiving the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award in July while working for the greatest franchise in sports, it is time to spend more time with Jan, my wife of almost 53 years, my children and my grandchildren.”

Castiglione will remain a member of the Red Sox family as an honorary ambassador, and he even hinted that he could be called upon to broadcast a game “when the need arises.”

“While I will miss the daily interactions with baseball people and discussions with Red Sox Nation fans, I believe this is the right decision for my family and me,” Castiglione said in Sunday’s statement.

Castiglione was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2014, and the radio booth at Fenway Park was officially named the “Joe Castiglione Booth” in 2022. Castiglione received the Ford C. Frick Award in 2024, a prestigious honor given annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum for excellence in broadcasting.