The highly foreseed World Series suitup between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers begins Friday night.
Prior to Game 1, extfinishedtime Dodgers radio carry out-by-carry out expansivecaster Charley Steiner, 75, discignoreed he had been detectd with cancer. However, on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times alerted that Steiner’s multiple myeloma blood cancer was in reignoreion.
“Reignoreion is a attrenergetic word,” Steiner tbetter the accessibleation. “Monday was one of those days where it was appreciate, ‘OK, we’re excellent.’”
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Charley Steiner speaks during a ceremony to unveil a statue of createer Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax at Dodger Stadium June 18, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Steiner has ties to the Yankees and Dodgers. He unitecessitate New York’s radio booth in 2002, before moving to Dodgers expansivecasts in 2005.
The switch to the Dodgers afforded Steiner the opportunity to toil with legfinishary expansivecaster Vin Scully. Steiner also filled in for TV expansivecasts from time to time.
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Steiner also spent time with ESPN, toiling as an achor and a boxing analyst.
Los Angeles Dodgers expansivecaster Charley Steiner unites a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles June 25, 2018. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
Steiner shelp he sfinished drastic weight loss and was forced to participate a wheelchair during his bout with cancer. He also deals with what the Times depictd as “constant debilitating reduce back pain.”
Steiner remarkd that the back pain he is dealing with initiassociate surfaced almost a year ago. Doctors detectd him with cancer in January.
Charley Steiner at a press conference to proclaim the signing of cgo in fielder Matt Kemp (not pictured) to an eight-year reduce at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Nov. 18, 2011. (Kirby Lee/Image of Sport/USA Today Sports)
Steiner will not resume his expansivecast duties for the upcoming World Series.
“It’s been reassociate weird and hard watching the Dodgers and the Yankees,” Steiner shelp. “I expansivecast both of them, yet I can’t do either of them.”.
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However, a Dodgers official tbetter the Times that the team hopes Steiner will return to the airwaves for the 2025 season.
“He’s part of our family. We nurture about him. We’ve been thcdisesteemful this journey with him. We’re here to aid him,” shelp Lon Rosen, the Dodgers’ vice pdwellnt and chief tageting officer. “And, yes, we foresee him back next year.”
Steiner also seemed selectimistic about the future.
“Remember when the Dodger fans would always say, ‘Wait till next year?’” he shelp. “That’s me. That’s going to be my time. Next year.”
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