Bob Costas Bio, Wiki, MLB, Age, Education, Family, Children, Wife, Net Worth, and Career

Bob Costas Biography/Wiki

Bob Costas is a skilled American Journalist who is currently working at MLB as a host and announcer. He is a Twenty-eight-time Emmy Award winner and Hall of Fame award-winning broadcaster.

Bob Costas Age

How old is Costas? He is 70 years old as of 2024. He was born on March 22, 1952. Costas celebrates his birthday on March 22 every year.

Bob Costas Education

Costas began his broadcasting career in 1974 at WSYR in Syracuse, where he attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Bob Costas Height/Weight

He stands on an average height of 5 Feet 4 inches and weighs around 70kgs.

Bob Costas Family

He was born and raised in the United States. Costas was born to Jayne Quinlan and John George Costas. His mother is of Irish descent and his father is of Greek descent. Costas had a very poor relationship with his father while growing up. He grew along with his also sibling, Valerie Costas.

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Bob Costas Wife

Costas married Carole Krumenacher on June 24, 1983, and later on they divorced in 2001. Costas went on and married Jill Sutton on March 14, 2004.

Bob Costas Children

Costas has a daughter named Taylor and a son named Keith. However, he has not disclosed further information about whether his children. This information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Bob Costas Career

He serves as a play-by-play announcer for the MLB Network Showcase series and contributes to MLB Network’s studio programming and special event coverage throughout the year. Earlier June in 2020, Costas and Tom Verducci have co-hosted MLB Network’s series The Sounds of Baseball.

The tribute series to baseball’s iconic voices have featured Jon Miller, Mel Allen, Red Barber, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Joe Garagiola, Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, Al Michaels, Vin Scully, and Bob Uecker in its first year. He was honored with the Ford C. Frick Award for major contributions to baseball, voted on by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, and awarded during the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y. in 2018.

Costas has been regarded as one of the best interviewers in broadcasting, he has spoken with the biggest names in baseball and beyond for MLB Network, including Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout; Hall of Famers Yogi Berra, Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, Ferguson Jenkins, Tony La Russa, Don Larsen, Juan Marichal, Tom Seaver and Joe Torre; Hall of Fame Award-winning broadcaster Ernie Harwell; and President Barack Obama at the 2009 All-Star Game.

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In 2011, he co-hosted the landmark series “MLB’s 20 Greatest Games” with Tom Verducci on MLB Network. This series ranked the top 20 games of the previous 50 seasons. It featured interviews with key players, managers, and broadcasters from each game. Some of the notable interviews included Jack Morris and John Smoltz discussing Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, which was ranked as the No. 2 game, as well as Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, 1975 MVP and Rookie of the Year Fred Lynn, Pete Rose, Bernie Carbo, Dwight Evans, Pat Darcy, and Denny Doyle talking about Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. This game was ranked by MLB Network as the No. 1 greatest game of the previous 50 seasons.

Costas also contributes to MLB Network’s breaking news coverage throughout the year. He conducted the exclusive first television interview with Mark McGwire following his admission of steroid use during his playing career in January 2010 and also secured the first interview with Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts after she broke the news in February 2009 of Alex Rodriguez’s use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Throughout his career, he has hosted coverage of many significant baseball events, covering the American League Championship Series in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Costas covered the NLCS in 1999 and called the 1995, 1997, and 1999 World Series and the 2000 All-Star Game. From 1982 to 1989, Costas was the play-by-play announcer on NBC’s Baseball Game of the Week telecasts.

He is the author of Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball, which received good reviews and made the New York Times Best Seller list in 2002. The book’s net proceeds were donated to B.A.T. (Baseball Assistance Team), a charity providing financial assistance to those in need in the baseball family. Additionally, he also served as NBC’s primetime host for a U.S.-television record 11 Olympic Games – every Olympics on NBC since 1992, including the 2012 London Games, which is the most-watched television event in U.S. history, reaching 217 million viewers – before passing the torch to Mike Tirico in February 2017.

From 2006 to 2016, Costas served as the host of the critically acclaimed and most-watched weekly studio show in sports, Football Night in America. He was also the host of Football Night, the pregame show for NBC’s Thursday Night Football package, in its debut 2016 season. Costas has also served as host of NBC’s presentation of the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes, as well as U.S. Open and Ryder Cup coverage, and as a contributor on CNN.

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From 2005 to 2009, Costas hosted Costas Now on HBO, a quarterly one-hour sports magazine program. From 2001 to 2005, Costas hosted HBO’s On The Record, a weekly interview program. Costas also hosted HBO’s Inside the NFL from 2002 to 2008.

He also hosted NBA Showtime, NBC Sports’ NBA pregame show, from 1991 through the 1996 season, and was NBC’s top play-by-play man for NBA on NBC game telecasts between 1997 and 2000. Costas’ call of Michael Jordan’s game-winning shot in the deciding Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals is considered one of sportscasting’s most memorable calls of the modern era.

In addition he began the popular Costas Coast-to-Coast nationally syndicated Sunday night sports radio talk and interview show, which ran from 1986 to 1996. From 1988 to 1994, he hosted his own Emmy Award-winning late-night interview television show for NBC, Later. Costas also handled regional NFL and NBA assignments for CBS Sports from 1976 to 1981, while working as the radio voice of University of Missouri basketball.

He has been honored as Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association (NSSA) a record eight times and was the youngest to receive such an honor when he won the award in 1985. Costas was inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame in June 2012 and he received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University in October 2012.

Costas also received the 2019 Sam Lacy-Wendell Smith Award from the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism. In March 2000, Costas was named Favorite Sportscaster at the TV Guide Awards. Costas began his broadcasting career in 1974 at WSYR in Syracuse, where he attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Bob Costas’s Salary/Net Worth

Costas has an estimated salary ranging between $70,000 – $125,000 and has an estimated net worth of $1 Million -$5 Million which he earns from his broadcasting career.

Bob Costas’s Social Media Platforms

He is very active on all social media accounts and he is often seen posting on his platforms. Costas has over 163 followers on Twitter, 3.1k followers on Facebook, and 2.9k followers on Instagram.

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