Billy Crystal After graduation from Long Beach High School in 1965, Crystal attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal never played baseball at Marshall because the program was suspended during his first year. He did not return to Marshall as a sophomore, instead deciding to stay in New York to be close to his future wife. He attended Nassau Community College with Janice and later transferred to New York University, where he was a film and television directing major. He graduated from NYU in
Billy Costa and has received a Children's Television Award for "Rap Around", his kids' talk show. Billy Costa Billy Costa (born December 24, 1951) is an American radio and television host in the Boston area. Costa grew up in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He attended Merrimack College in Massachusetts on a hockey scholarship, majoring in English. After transferring to Emerson College in Boston, he found a job as a disc jockey at a local nightclub. He later joined the Emerson radio station, WERS, as a DJ. After graduating from Emerson with a degree in