“He informed and entertained generations of fans with a theatrical and unapologetic style that was uniquely his own,” the New York Yankees stated.
John Sterling, the radio voice of the New York Yankees for more than three decades, died on Monday. He was 87.
New York radio station WFAN, which carries Yankee games, announced Sterling’s death but did not give a cause or say where he died.
Sterling, who was Jewish, had a heart attack in January, and the Yankees play-by-play announcer on the YES Network, Michael Kay, said on his ESPN radio show on Monday that Sterling recently experienced heart failure and “finally succumbed today.”
“He was an unabashed Yankee fan, and he grew up a Yankee fan in New York,” Kay, Sterling’s broadcast partner for years, said on ESPN. “It meant the world to him to have the stature of being the voice of the Yankees on the radio.”