{"id":73028,"date":"2026-05-04T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/john-sterling-beloved-voice-of-yankees-for-36-seasons-dies-at-age-of-87\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:55:23","slug":"john-sterling-beloved-voice-of-yankees-for-36-seasons-dies-at-age-of-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/john-sterling-beloved-voice-of-yankees-for-36-seasons-dies-at-age-of-87\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sterling, beloved voice of Yankees for 36 seasons, dies at age of 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Broadcaster called 5,420 regular-season games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Native New Yorker won 12 Emmys for his work<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Sterling, whose voice became synonymous with the New York Yankees, has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling, a native New Yorker, started broadcasting Yankees games on radio in 1989 and continued until he retired in April 2024. During that span, he called 5,420 regular-season games and 211 in the postseason. He rarely missed a game and worked 5,060 consecutive games between 1989 and 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/john-sterling-back-in-booth-after-being-struck-by-foul-ball\">During one memorable game in 2023<\/a>, he was hit by a foul ball during a broadcast and returned to work the next day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/04\/john-sterling-beloved-voice-of-yankees-for-36-seasons-dies-at-age-of-87\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster called 5,420 regular-season games Native New Yorker won 12 Emmys for his work John Sterling, whose voice became synonymous with the New York Yankees, has died at the age of 87. Sterling, a native New Yorker, started broadcasting Yankees games on radio in 1989 and continued until he retired in April 2024. During that &#8230; <a title=\"John Sterling, beloved voice of Yankees for 36 seasons, dies at age of 87\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/john-sterling-beloved-voice-of-yankees-for-36-seasons-dies-at-age-of-87\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about John Sterling, beloved voice of Yankees for 36 seasons, dies at age of 87\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}