- The 17th person in history to win a World Series as both a player and a manager.
- Children: son Matthew (b. September 20, 1988 in Encino, CA), and daughter Taylor (b. December 12, 1991, in Upland, CA). Matthew was picked by the Angels in the 45th round of the 2011 MLB draft out of Notre Dame. Taylor played volleyball for Loyola Marymount.
- Selected 19th overall by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1976 free agent draft.
- Met his wife when she had attended an autograph day at Dodger Stadium with a plate of cookies she baked for him; Scioscia didn't appear. A sympathetic security guard told her to meet him at the clubhouse after the game, where he introduced her to Scioscia, who escorted her to his car in the players' parking lot. They dated for five years before they got married.
- Surname pronounced so-SHA.
- Named Manager Of The Anaheim Angels (2000)
- Matthew Scioscia was traded to the Chicago Cubs for Trevor Gretzky (son of Wayne Gretzky) on March 20, 2014, but released on May 2nd. He was released by the Windy City ThunderBolts (Crestwood, IL) of the non-MLB affiliated Frontier League on June 14, 2014.
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