{"id":219161,"date":"2026-05-04T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:49:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-legendary-yankees-broadcaster-john-sterling-has-died-wfan-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219161\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Legendary Yankees Broadcaster John Sterling Has Died Wfan Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">John Sterling, the longtime radio play\u2011by\u2011play voice of the New York Yankees, according to WFAN. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe are devastated to hear about the passing of John Sterling, a WFAN and Yankees radio icon whose voice was synonymous with an entire generation of Yankee fandom,\u201d WFAN posted on X.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sterling served as the Yankees\u2019 radio broadcaster for 36 years from 1989 to 2024 and called 5,060 consecutive games from 1989 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was known nationally for his colorful and instantly recognizable signature calls. After Yankees victories, Sterling famously declared, \u201cBallgame over! Yankees win! Theeeeeee Yankees win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">His home run call, \u201cIt is high, it is far, it is gone,\u201d became a staple of Yankees broadcasts. Sterling was also known for creating personalized home run catchphrases for individual Yankees players.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sterling announced his retirement on April 15, 2024, but returned later that year to call playoff games. His final broadcast came on October 30, 2024, during Game 5 of the World Series, when the Yankees lost to the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sterling was a resident of Edgewater, New Jersey, and had previously lived in Teaneck. In January 2015, he was among hundreds of residents displaced when a fire destroyed the Avalon at Edgewater apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In February 2026, Sterling revealed that he had suffered a heart attack the previous month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Sterling, the longtime radio play\u2011by\u2011play voice of the New York Yankees, according to WFAN. He was 87.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-219161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}