Background
Corrigan grew up in the West Park neighborhood on Cleveland"s west side.
Corrigan grew up in the West Park neighborhood on Cleveland"s west side.
He attended Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, where he played football, graduating in 1970. He attended Cornell University, where he played wide receiver for four seasons.
He is the radio announcer for the Colorado Rockies in Major League Baseball. Previously, he spent 18 years as the television announcer for the Cleveland Indians. He graduated in 1974.
He earned a master"s degree in Speech from Kent State University.
He wrote his master"s thesis on NFL Films. Corrigan started his broadcasting career in Youngstown, Ohio.
He then moved on to Richmond, Virginia, before returning to Cleveland. He spent 18 years in the television booth for the Cleveland Indians from 1983, 1985-2001 on WUAB channel 43, which had given him the longest tenure among television announcers in Indians history.
Corrigan has since been surpassed by former Indians CF Rick Manning who started full time in 1990 and is still with the team
From 1982-1988 (during the baseball off season) he was the television voice of the National Basketball Association"s Cleveland Cavaliers, whose games were on channel 43. Signature calls lieutenant"s touch "em all time for (player"s name)! - for a home run hit by the Rockies (carried over from his time with the Indians).