The John Sterling Project is now final as of Sterling’s retirement, which was announced on April 15, 2024. For more information about the John Sterling Project, click here.
On April 15, 2024, John Sterling announced his retirement from the Yankees’ radio booth, where he informed and entertained Yankees fans for 36 years. For the last 11 of those years, the Captains Blog has catalogued the HR calls that helped make Sterling so beloved and iconic. So, it is with a tinge of sadness, but also overflowing gratitude, that the John Sterling Project is now officially brought to an end.
John Sterling’s Personalized Home Run Calls, Since 2002
Note: Some calls have evolved over time; the ones presented in the list above are believed to be the most prominent renditions. Calls in bold have not been confirmed by either memory, reputable sources, or archived audio. Entries separated by “/” represent different scripts, not variations of the same calls.
Sterling fucking stinks! Not a Yankee hater, but how could fans listen to this shit? Little Jimmy FTW!
You know, Suzyn, you just can’t predict baseball fans.
So embarrassing, the one thing I have no comment for when my Red Sox fan friends give me crap about
Good stuff. No need for anyone to take John Sterling so seriously that they would use the F word in their description of his broadcast style. It works for him and it works for the Yankees as there are sites after sites after sites about his home run calls. That’s called PUBLICITY and it is all FREE. John Sterling has been doing this kind of stuff for decades dating back to the New York Raiders of the WHA when his broadcast partner was Yankee lefty and wife swapper Fritz Peterson. Sterling would scream “Loose in front…Ward takes a wack it…Sheehan a rebound…RAIDER GOAL…RAIDER GOAL…RAIDER GOAL…BOBBY SHEEHAN AT THE SIDE OF THE NET PUTS A REBOUND PAST DALY AND THE RAIDERS LEAD 2 TO 1.” Sterling would go on to do the same thing with the Islanders ISLANDER GOAL…ISLANDERS GOAL…ISLANDER GOAL and the same thing with the New York Nets “Paultz a rebound..double teamed..gets it out to Williamson who let’s fly FROM 25 BULLSEYE BULLSEYE BULLSEYE SUPER JOHN WILLIAMSON BURRIES A 3 POINTER AND THE NETS GO UP BY 10.” so RELAX and enjoy the show…cause that’s all it is. It works for Sterling, it works for the Yankees and it better work for you cause he’s here to stay and will only go when HE determines it’s time…so stop your whining everybody.
who ever said jon sterling is boring is nuts
jon sterling also says by beltran ‘a belt by beltran’
Thanks…confirmed and added.
love this chart, thanks for putting it together. the didi one was an instant ‘classic’
by garret jones he also says ‘he’s keeping up with the joneses
Been looking around, anyone know of Jeter’s old home run calls before he was named Captain?
jon sterling also says by beltran ‘the bronx belter’
by aaron hicks its probably he hits one to the styx [as in the river styx
This Sterling guy is the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever heard on the radio. I feel embarrassed for this clown. I really do.
For Brett Gardner he recently started using “It’s a Gardy party!”
Thanks…I’ve gone back and listened to some recent calls for the regulars and added a few more variations to the list.
Tachman just rocked em
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I am so sick and tired of all the bashing John received, especially from so-called “Yankee fans”. John gave his all to the Yankees for 35 years and never missed a game the first 30 plus which is dedication, and unlike his boring insomnia-inducing predecessor Hank Greenwald, he didn’t treat being the Voice of the Yankees as just another job (something that a number of Yankee TV announcers in this were also prone to. This means you, DeWayne Staats), he knew the pulse and history of the Yankees and he and Michael Kay for ten years wrote the soundtrack of the last great era in Yankee history. Thank you John for the great memories I treasure and that I gladly listen to over and over again. And a big F-You to Phil Mushmouth and all of his psycho-babblings about John through the decades that disgraced the art of making an honest living.