John Sterling began his Yankees broadcasting career in 1987 as a pre-game and post-game host.
Sterling is known for his unique home run calls and boisterous style. His signature calls include those for Bernie Williams and Alex Rodriguez.
Sterling took over the play-by-play role in 1989.
John Sterling, the iconic radio voice of the New York Yankees for over three decades, retired from his role on March 28, 2023. The Yankees honored him with a retirement ceremony at Yankee Stadium on April 20, 2024. During his career spanning over five thousand games, Sterling became known for his unique home-run calls and boisterous style.
Born and raised in New York City, Sterling grew up listening to baseball broadcasts and dreamed of becoming a broadcaster himself (Fact 1). He began his career with the Yankees in 1987, initially working as a pre-game and post-game host before taking over the play-by-play role in 1989. Over the years, Sterling's signature calls for home runs by players like Bernie Williams and Alex Rodriguez became synonymous with Yankees baseball (Facts 2, 3).
John Sterling retired from his role as the play-by-play radio broadcaster for the Yankees effective immediately after 5,420 regular-season and 211 postseason broadcasts.
Sterling described his career as 'Call Me Lucky'
The Yankees presented Sterling with a silver microphone trophy, a jersey with the number 5,631 printed across the back for the number of Yankees games he called and a big-screen TV.
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Sterling was honored with a retirement ceremony before a Yankees game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium.
He jokingly asked if this is where manager Aaron Boone would say ‘I think he’s getting close?’
Sterling took his first road trip to Houston and Arizona and realized he didn’t want to work every day
Sterling had been broadcasting for 64 years and would turn 86 on his next birthday
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The author uses informal fallacy of appeal to emotion when describing John Sterling's retirement ceremony as a 'celebration' and the fans' reaction as a 'loud John Sterling chant'. The author also uses an informal fallacy of hasty generalization when stating that 'person after person, group after group have come to me with a kindness, respect and love.'
]It's like he gets in that chair and it just shoots life through him.[/]
[He's at home. He's in his office.]
[This is all he ever wanted to do, was be like Mel Allen. And now for generations of people, he is the voice of the New York Yankees – to me, always will be.]
