{"id":220005,"date":"2026-05-04T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220005\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:58:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-legendary-yankees-radio-voice-john-sterling-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220005\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Legendary Yankees Radio Voice John Sterling Dies At 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">John Sterling, the iconic radio voice of the New York Yankees for nearly four decades, has died.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime play-by-play announcer who became synonymous with Yankees baseball died at 87, according to WFAN. The station confirmed he died in the hospital, not long after undergoing heart surgery this winter.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">[twitter]https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/2051284245373411802[\/twitter<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Sterling, the iconic radio voice of the New York Yankees for nearly four decades, has died. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-220005","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\/220005","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=220005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}