- Date Of Birth: May 15, 1937
- Date Of Death: March 10, 2021
- Occupation: Sports broadcaster.
- City: Lafayette Township
- State: Ohio
Joseph Tait (May 15, 1937 – March 10, 2021) was an American sports broadcaster who was the play-by-play announcer on radio for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and both TV and radio for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. With the exception of two seasons in the early 1980s and illness during his final season, he was the Cavaliers’ radio announcer from the team’s inception in 1970 through the 2010–11 season. He won the Basketball Hall of Fame 2010 Curt Gowdy Media Award.
Tait married his first wife in 1963. They were married 18 years and had three children, Christina, Karen and Joe. In 1983, he married his second wife, Jean. He and Jean resided in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio.
Tait died in his home under hospice care March 10, 2021, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 83. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.
