For four decades John Sterling has announced Yankees games on the radio. He's broadcast over 5000 consecutive games, creating a vivid "theater of the mind" -- or "game of the mind" to say more accurately -- for legions of Yankee and NYC baseballs fans.
Now, at the age of 85, he's retiring, as much a legend as any player whose games he announced.
I remember listening to some of his games on the radio back in the 1990s and his voice was powerful and unmistakable. And his legendary motto, when a player hit a homerun, be would "It is hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, it is lowwwwwwwwwwwwww, it is GOOOOONNNNNNNNEEEEEEE!"
He'll be irreplaceable. Enjoy retirment, John, the city miss you.
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