Charley Steiner is watching this World Series astatine location successful Los Angeles, counting nan days until adjacent season, erstwhile he plans to resume his craft.
A Dodgers broadcaster since 2005, aft moving 3 seasons pinch John Sterling connected Yankees radio, Steiner was diagnosed past wintertime pinch aggregate myeloma humor crab that forced him to miss almost each of this season.
Now successful remission, nan 75-year-old Steiner is channeling his Brooklyn Dodgers boyhood rooting interest.
“It’s hold until adjacent year,” Steiner said Monday by phone.
Steiner said he worked 3 aliases 4 Dodgers power broadcasts this play and was constricted to only a fewer innings successful each because of terrible little backmost symptom that was a manifestation of nan cancer.
Steiner still undergoes regular beingness therapy connected his back.
“I could talk and do each nan things 1 does for a living, but nan trouble was remaining upright for an extended play of time, truthful aft only 3 aliases 4 innings I was toast,” Steiner said.
Steiner admitted it’s been difficult watching nan Yankees and Dodgers play successful nan World Series without a microphone successful beforehand of him.
“I was a Brooklyn Dodger instrumentality connected Long Island and past they moved and I became a Yankee instrumentality because location was cipher else,” Steiner said. “And arsenic nan years spell connected I extremity up doing nan Yankees and nan Dodgers and to person them play each different and location is thing I tin do, isolated from to watch — it’s infuriating. I support reaching retired for nan brass ring, but I can’t rather grasp it.”
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Steiner’s trips to Dodger Stadium successful caller weeks, first during nan NLCS and past for Game 1 of nan World Series, person been therapeutic.
Steiner spent clip catching up pinch Mets power sound Howie Rose during nan NLCS and pinch Sterling and Suzyn Waldman past weekend.
“One of nan awesome misnomers complete each these years is that John and Suzyn and I aren’t friends,” Steiner said. “We person been friends and we talk a adjacent amount, truthful to spot them was great. To spot Howie was awesome because we each grew up together. Howie and John and I successful nan precocious ‘70s, location we were: Howie had nan dopey portion recorder complete his enarthrosis arsenic I did mine, and John was John. We person known 1 different for complete 40 years, truthful it was awesome to spot them.”
Steiner said he has been assured by Dodgers brass that he is wanted backmost successful nan booth.
“In galore ways it’s benignant of patient for me,” Steiner said. “There is simply a target I tin propulsion darts at. Yeah, I’m coming backmost and 1 of nan things I person recovered is really overmuch I miss it.”