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TORONTO – John Sterling has concluded a 36-year run as the radio Voice of the Yankees, creating a play-by-play void with his retirement, effective immediately. Justin Shackil and Emmanuel ...
In his 36th season as the Voice of the Yankees, John Sterling confirmed to The Record and NorthJersey.com that he has decided to call it a career. ... Sterling’s radio partner from 2002-04, now ...
The New York Yankees today announced that legendary Yankees play-by-play radio voice John Sterling, who has called 5,420 regular season Yankees games and 211 postseason Yankees games, is retiring ...
while announcing the hockey team's games from 1975-78 along with those of the NBA's Nets from 1975-80. Sterling's first connection with the Yankees was during pregame shows while he worked on a WMCA radio talk show from 1971-78. He moved to Atlanta and worked for the Braves from 1982-87 and Hawks from 1981-89 before switching to the Yankees.
Following Sterling's retirement in April 2024, Shackil and Emmanuel Berbari assumed play-by-play duties for the Yankees for the remainder of the season. [9] After the Yankees hired Dave Sims to succeed Sterling for the 2025 season, Shackil announced that he was stepping away from WFAN's postgame show to focus on television broadcasting. [10]
In 1989, Sterling returned to New York to broadcast the games for the Yankees on WABC radio. In 2013, the Yankees announced a move to WFAN for ten years, and Sterling was retained. [11] His announcing partners were Jay Johnstone (1989–1990), Joe Angel (1991), Michael Kay (1992–2001), Charley Steiner (2002–2004), and Suzyn Waldman (2002 ...
Dave Sims is replacing John Sterling as the new radio voice for the New York Yankees. ... Sims, 71, has called games on the Seattle Mariners' TV broadcasts for the past 17 seasons.
Sims began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News. [7] In the early 1980s he was a sports reporter for the short lived "Satellite News Channel".Moving to radio, Sims became the host of WNBC's SportsNight (1986–1988) (replacing Jack Spector), a five-hour nightly sports call-in show that was a precursor to the all-sports talk format of WFAN. [7]