Ken Dito grew up in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood and attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, where he starred in baseball. He started his college career at City College of San Francisco, where he earned All-Conference honors on an outstanding baseball team. He then moved on to play ball at the University of California.
After graduation, Ken became a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District. He is best known for his work as a sports broadcaster with numerous Bay Area radio stations, having started with KNBR and then later at KSFO and KFRC and KGO. He has done broadcast work for the Oakland Raiders, San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s. While employed at KSFO, in addition to hosting “Baseball Tonight”, he did afternoon sports for the Wolfman Jack program. He has worked aside such luminaries as fellow BARHOF members Hank Greenwald (2009), Bill King (2006), and Lon Simmons (2006).