John sterling biography

American sportscaster (born 1938)

Baseball player

John Sterling (néSloss; born July 4, 1938) is an American retired sportscaster, best known as the radio play-by-play announcer of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1989 to 2024. Sterling called 5,060 consecutive Yankees games from 1989 to 2019.

Early life

Sterling was born John Sloss in New York City and grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the son of advertising executive Carl H. T. Sloss. Sterling is Jewish. He briefly attended Moravian College, Boston University, and the Columbia University School of General Studies before leaving school to begin his career in radio at a small station in Wellsville, New York.

Broadcasting career

Early career

He changed his name to Sterling and began his broadcasting career in Baltimore, where he served as the play-by-play announcer for the then-Baltimore Bullets for the 1970–71 NBA season. He also did play-by-play for Morgan State University football, a role that he held from 1971 to 1978.

Sterling came to New York broadcasting as a talk show host with WMCA in 1971. He later served as the radio voice for the WHA's New York Raiders, the WFL's New York Stars, the NHL's New York Islanders (where he was paired with Bob Lawrence), and the ABA/NBA's New York/New Jersey Nets (where he was paired mainly with Mike DeTomasso). Sterling also did a stretch with the Yankees as pre-game host on WMCA and WINS radio, as well as co-host on cable segments with Mel Allen.

 
 
Man of letters, poet, and religious thinker, John Sterling had a special gift for literary friendships, and he expressed that gift powerfully toward the Carlyles.  In the conclusion of his Life of John Sterling (1851), Thomas writes, "Here, visible to myself, for some while, was a brilliant human presence, distinguishable, honourable and lovable amid the dim common populations; among the million little beautiful, once more a beautiful human soul: whom I, among others, recognised and lovingly walked with, while the years and the hours were."  Sterling's death from consumption left a general sense of promise unfulfilled, yet if his life can be detached from the pervasive Victorian sense of valediction, it reveals a complex and more rewarding intellectual pilgrimage. 
 
John Sterling was born in 1806 at Kames Castle, on the Isle of Bute, where his father, Edward,  a retired captain of militia, had taken up farming.  In 1809 the family moved to the south of Wales while the father cultivated various connections, finally establishing a lifelong association with the Times in London, first as a leader-writer, and eventually as co-proprietor.  Edward Sterling (1773-1847) and his wife Hester Coningham Sterling (1783-1843) were closely linked with the Carlyles in their own right, as was John's elder brother, Col. Anthony Sterling (1805-1871).  All lived in Knightsbridge in London after 1820.  John's poor health prevented him attending public school, but he studied at Greenwich School and Christ's Hospital before attending Glasgow University, 1822-24, and finally Trinity College, Cambridge in 1824. 

At Cambridge Sterling quickly distinguished himself in debates at the Union Society, becoming its president in 1827, and among the fledgling Cambridge Apostles.  Torn between careers in law, politics, the church, and literature, Sterling migrated to Trinity Hall in 1826 and then back to London.

Scottish author (1806–1844)

John Sterling (20 July 1806 – 18 September 1844) was a Scottish author.

Life

Sterling was born at Kames Castle on the Isle of Bute, the son of Edward Sterling. After studying for a year at the University of Glasgow, he in 1824 entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had for tutor Julius Charles Hare. At Cambridge he took part in the debates of the Cambridge Union Society, and became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, forming friendships with Frederick Denison Maurice and Richard Trench. He moved to Trinity Hall with the intention of graduating in law but left the university without taking a degree.

During the next four years, Sterling resided chiefly in London, employing himself actively in literature and making a number of literary friends. With F. D. Maurice he purchased the Athenaeum magazine in 1828 from James Silk Buckingham, but the enterprise was not a financial success. He also formed an intimacy with the Spanish revolutionary General Torrijos, in whose unfortunate expedition he took an active interest. He raised funds for Spanish liberal exiles to carry out their plans for insurrection, and his words influenced young Robert Boyd to give his family inheritance to Torrijos's cause. On 2 November 1830, at Christ Church, Marylebone, Sterling married Susannah, daughter of Lieutenant-General Charles Barton (1760–1819) and his wife Susannah.

Shortly after his marriage in 1830 symptoms of tuberculosis induced Sterling to take up his residence on the island of St Vincent, where he had inherited some property, and he remained there for fifteen months before returning to England. While at St Vincent he wrote "So far as I see, the Slaves here are cunning, deceitful and idle; without any great aptitude for ferocious crimes, and with very little scruple at committing others. But I have seen them much only in very favor

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