Legendary Yankees radio announcer John Sterling suffered a health scare in January.
He made a startling revelation while speaking with the Yankees’ Spanish radio voice, Ricky Ricardo, on WFAN over the weekend.
“For people who don’t know, there isn’t any reason to hide it, at the beginning of January, I had a heart attack,” Sterling said in a clip shared on X/Twitter. “That’s fine, the heart is fine. Sometimes it affects your legs, and it has affected my legs so i’m kind of waiting for the force to leave my legs and I can get back out there. But i’m very fortunate and all things are good.
“I have four children and I couldn’t have done anything without them. And they have been sensational in taking care of me. They’ve taken over all phases of my life.”
In April 2024, Sterling retired after a 36-year run as the radio voice of the Yankees. He returned to the booth during the Yankees’ 2024 postseason run, where they made it to the World Series for the first time since 2009.
A native New Yorker who grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Sterling joined the Yankees broadcast team in 1989 from Atlanta’s TBS and WSB Radio, where he called Hawks basketball (1981-89) and Braves games (1982-87).