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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 ...
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 ...
As one of the most successful clubs in Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees are also one of its oldest teams. Part of that success derives to its radio and television broadcasts that have been running beginning in 1939 when the first radio transmissions were broadcast from the old stadium, and from 1947 when television broadcasts began.
In his 36th season as the Voice of the Yankees, ... Sterling’s radio partner from 2002-04, now broadcasting Los Angeles Dodgers games. ... John Sterling: Yankees legendary broadcaster retires ...
NEW YORK (AP) — John Sterling, the hyperexcitable New York Yankees broadcaster known for decades of indelible, personalized home run calls, announced his immediate retirement Monday at age 85. Sterling made the unexpected decision a few weeks into his 34th season as the Yankees' radio play-by-play voice.
John Sterling (né Sloss; [1] born July 4, 1938) [2] [3] is an American retired sportscaster, best known as the radio play-by-play announcer of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1989 to 2024. Sterling called 5,060 consecutive Yankees games from 1989 to 2019. [4]
Waldman has worked in sports reporting for more than 30 years. She was a reporter for the YES Network's Yankees pre-and post-game shows, and also appeared on New York sports radio station WFAN. Her voice—on a live sports update—was the first heard on WFAN when it premiered on 1050 AM at 3:00 PM on July 1, 1987 (it moved to 660 AM a year later).
Retiring New York Yankees broadcaster was honored before the team's game versus the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday. Sterling said he was tired after 64 years at the mic.