John Sterling’s iconic home run calls weren’t the greatest creations of the recently retired Yankee announcer. That distinction goes to kids: 23-year-old triplets children Veronica, Bradford and Derek, and Abigail, 26. The kids say they get their work ethic from their famous dad, who called 5,420 regular-season and 211 post-season Yankees games — including 5,060 consecutive from September 1989 to July 2019.
They tease their flip-phone-using dad for living “in his own fantasy land” filled with music, newspapers, books and every sporting event on TV. “On the phone or whenever we see him he asks, “Are you guys happy and healthy?'” says Derek, a Ramapo College student named after Bomber great Derek Jeter. “He is unlike any other human I’ve ever met,” notes Brad, who is in finance and living in Manhattan.
“My dad is the Michael Jordan of not sweating the small stuff.” He’s also quirky. Sterling famously has two TVs in front of his bed.
“One of them will be sports, usually with the sound off — and then the other will be a great murder mystery or a black and white movie,” the son says. Brad says one of his favorite home run calls by his dad is for Yankee slugger Giancarlo Stanton: “Giancarlo, non si può de stopparlo!” Loosely translated from Italian, it means, “You cannot be stopped!” Abigail recalls “there are few things my dad loves more than Broadway show tunes and Frank Sinatra. Growing up, my dad always had Sinatra, Dean Martin, or .