"Sutton has set up such a fine example of defiance that someday I expect to see a pitcher walk out to the mound with a utility best on - you know, file, chisel, screwdriver, glue. He'll throw a ball to the plate with bolts attached to it."
--Ray Miller, Orioles pitching coach on Don Sutton's illegal pitches
Suzyn Waldman is a sports broadcaster. Starting with the 2005
season, she is the color commentator for New
York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling on radio broadcasts
for WCBS-AM in New York City.
She is the second woman in Major League Baseball history to serve as a
full-time color commentator on a regular basis (Betty
Caywood of the Kansas City Athletics served for last part of 1964). In the mid-1990s, she was a play-by-play announcer
for the Yankees' local TV broadcasts, which made her the first (and to
date only) woman to serve that role for a Major League Baseball team.
She is an award-winning veteran of more than 20 years of sports
reporting, as a former broadcaster for the YES Network and New York sports
radio station WFAN. Her voice -- on a live sports update -- was the first
heard on WFAN when it premiered at 1050 AM on July 1, 1987. At WFAN, she
covered both the Yankees and the New York Knicks basketball teams and
co-hosted the daily mid-day sports talk show.
In 1996, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. While her chemotherapy
regimen limited (and eventually ended) her day-to-day role of broadcasting
Yankees games on TV, she continued in her role at WFAN throughout her
illness (now long in remission), and her return to daily broadcasting of
Yankees baseball on radio is a testament to her determination and love of
her craft.
In 1999, Waldman played a key intermediary role in negotiating an end
to the 14-year Yogi Berra-George Steinbrenner feud, thereby allowing Berra
to rejoin the Yankees "family".
Ironically, though she has been very devoted to a career that heavily
revolves around the New York sports scene and the New York Yankees in
particular, she was born and raised in Massachusetts and is a lifelong fan
of the rival Boston Red Sox.
Prior to her broadcasting career, Waldman worked for many years as an
actress and singer in Broadway musical theatre. Her most notable role was
as Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha.
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