Hour 1: John Sterling’s Yankees Legacy, Through Susan Waldman’s Eyes

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Evan Roberts and Shaun Morash remember the legendary John Sterling with Susan Waldman, who shares a deeply personal tribute to her longtime broadcast partner and friend. Waldman reflects on Sterling’s kindness, his love of baseball, his old school quirks, and the dream job he wanted since childhood. The conversation revisits Sterling’s iconic home run calls, his bond with Yankees players and fans, his emotional call of Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit, and why his voice became essential to New York baseball. Evan and Shaun also make the case that Sterling belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, celebrating a broadcaster whose legacy reaches far beyond the booth.

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0:00.0	We awoke to some horrible news, some sad news around the great John Sterling who passed away
0:04.4	earlier today. And I was thinking, what's the number one thing that comes to mind to properly
0:10.4	tribute John Sterling? I mean, he is a great guy. We've all had a chance to interact with him.
0:15.5	He was a friendly guy. But I think that John Sterling's voice and everything he described, he was truly the soundtrack of the New York Yankees for an entire generation.
0:29.0	I think about myself growing up as a baseball fan.
0:33.1	And it was his voice describing the improbable pink Cadillac run of 1996. It was his voice describing the improbable pink Cadillac run of 1996.
0:39.5	It was his voice who was articulating the back-to-back perfect games in seasons by David
0:45.9	Wells and David Cohn.
0:46.9	It was his voice describing the greatest baseball team I've ever seen in the 1998 Yankees.
0:51.7	It was his voice painfully as a Met fan describing the Subway World Series.
0:56.6	It was his voice describing, I know they didn't win the series, but 2001's World Series
1:02.4	will always live with all of us and some of the improbable moments all the way until even the
1:08.5	bad of losing the World Series to the Dodgers.
1:12.6	He was the narrator. He was the voice.
1:14.6	And when you think about this incredible era of New York Yankee baseball,
1:18.6	it's described by John Sterling.
1:21.6	Like 99.9% of the awesome or painful moments,
1:26.6	depending on your perspective, was described by him.
1:30.8	And he did it brilliantly.
1:32.5	And the best word I can use to describe John Sterling was he was entertaining as hell.
1:38.6	And so it's a sad day to know he's not around anymore.
1:42.3	But it's also a day where we should celebrate one of the
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