One of one John Sterling touched the lives of everyone around Yankees during memorable life

The announcers who shared a booth with the great John Sterling, and the players and manager who became the main actors in his theatrical telling of the game, arrived at Yankee Stadium on Monday to celebrate a life well lived, and lived only the way one man could.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

Sterling, the legendary and longtime radio voice of the Yankees, died Monday morning at the age of 87, giving way to a day of tributes and remembrances around the Yankees for the play-by-play man who became a fabric of the franchise.“There is no one like him, and there never will be,” Suzyn Waldman said Monday morning.“He was totally unique and was an original.”“The thing that comes to mind is one of one,” Michael Kay said.“A giant in the sport, did it his own way,” manager Aaron Boone said. “He brought that New York theater to the ballpark,” said Aaron Judge, he of the many “Judgian blasts” that Sterling called.

“He brought this game to life on the radio.”The Yankees honored Sterling with a ceremony before their game against the Orioles, which included a video, and Waldman and Kay — his most notable partners in the broadcast booth — laying flowers on home plate ahead of a moment of silence.Every Yankee had the initials “JS” on the back of their caps, above the MLB logo, honoring the man who called 5,426 regular-season Yankee games and 225 more in the playoffs from 1989-2024.

And the Bleacher Creatures finished their roll call with chants of “John Sterling!”With his iconic calls — from “Thuuuuuuh Yankees win!” to unique home run calls for each player — Sterling’s voice will remain part of Yankees lore.So, too, will the character that he was.“The best way to describe John, to me, is he looked at life like this one big cocktail party,” said Kay, who was Sterling’s radio partner from 1992-2001.

“He wanted ever...