Newsday went ahead and tallied it up. According to their math, John Sterling by last Friday had called 4,453 consecutive Yankees games on the radio – 4,286 regular-season contests and 167 post-season matches. Add this weekend’s series with the Angels and the total now stands at 4,456.
The streak started back in 1989, after Sterling came over from Turner, where he had been calling Altanta Hawks and Braves games. As he told reporter Jim Bambauch, he thought it might finally end earlier this year:
Sterling’s iron man run almost ended this season, he said recently, because he was prepared to take a personal day to attend his oldest daughter’s high school graduation in June.
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