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Suzyn Waldman
Suzyn Waldman (born September 7, 1946) is an American sportscaster and former musical theater actress. Since the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling, Justin Shackil and Dave Sims on radio broadcasts, first for WCBS-AM and currently for WFAN in New York City.
Waldman was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Jeanne and Philip Waldman. She loved baseball from childhood; she recalls going to a game with her grandfather when she was three and a half years old. She also has joked that she chose Simmons College because it was near Fenway Park. She graduated from Simmons with a degree in economics.
Prior to her broadcasting career, Waldman worked as an actress and singer in musical theater. Her most notable role was as Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha. Her rendition of "There Used To Be a Ballpark" appeared on historian David Pietrusza's 1995 WMHT-TV documentary Local Heroes: Baseball on Capital Region Diamonds. She has performed the National Anthem at a number of Yankee home games, most recently in April 2021, as well as before Game 7 of the 1986 American League Championship Series at Fenway Park.
Waldman is considered a pioneer in the male-dominated field of sports broadcasting. In the mid-1990s, she was a play-by-play announcer for the Yankees' local TV broadcasts on WPIX, which made her the second woman to serve in that capacity on TV for a major league team, after Gayle Gardner in 1993. In 2005, she was hired to do color commentary for Yankees baseball on WCBS Radio, partnering with John Sterling. According to the Yankees, Waldman was major league baseball's first full-time female color commentator.
Waldman has worked in sports reporting for more than 30 years. She was a reporter for the YES Network's Yankees pre- and post-game shows, and also appeared on New York sports radio station WFAN. Her voice—on a live sports update—was the first heard on WFAN when it premiered on 1050 AM at 3:00 PM on July 1, 1987 (it moved to 660 AM a year later). At WFAN, she covered both the Yankees and the New York Knicks basketball teams and co-hosted the daily mid-day sports talk show.
Following the 2013 season, the Yankees moved their radio rights from WCBS to WFAN, and announced that Waldman and John Sterling would return for their tenth year together in the broadcast booth. She signed a two-year contract extension in February 2016 that ran through the 2017 season.
On December 16, 2017, Waldman signed a contract through the 2018 season. She is currently under contract through the 2026 season.
From June 29–30, 2019, Waldman called the first MLB games played in Europe, when the Yankees played the Red Sox in London.
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Suzyn Waldman
Suzyn Waldman (born September 7, 1946) is an American sportscaster and former musical theater actress. Since the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling, Justin Shackil and Dave Sims on radio broadcasts, first for WCBS-AM and currently for WFAN in New York City.
Waldman was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Jeanne and Philip Waldman. She loved baseball from childhood; she recalls going to a game with her grandfather when she was three and a half years old. She also has joked that she chose Simmons College because it was near Fenway Park. She graduated from Simmons with a degree in economics.
Prior to her broadcasting career, Waldman worked as an actress and singer in musical theater. Her most notable role was as Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha. Her rendition of "There Used To Be a Ballpark" appeared on historian David Pietrusza's 1995 WMHT-TV documentary Local Heroes: Baseball on Capital Region Diamonds. She has performed the National Anthem at a number of Yankee home games, most recently in April 2021, as well as before Game 7 of the 1986 American League Championship Series at Fenway Park.
Waldman is considered a pioneer in the male-dominated field of sports broadcasting. In the mid-1990s, she was a play-by-play announcer for the Yankees' local TV broadcasts on WPIX, which made her the second woman to serve in that capacity on TV for a major league team, after Gayle Gardner in 1993. In 2005, she was hired to do color commentary for Yankees baseball on WCBS Radio, partnering with John Sterling. According to the Yankees, Waldman was major league baseball's first full-time female color commentator.
Waldman has worked in sports reporting for more than 30 years. She was a reporter for the YES Network's Yankees pre- and post-game shows, and also appeared on New York sports radio station WFAN. Her voice—on a live sports update—was the first heard on WFAN when it premiered on 1050 AM at 3:00 PM on July 1, 1987 (it moved to 660 AM a year later). At WFAN, she covered both the Yankees and the New York Knicks basketball teams and co-hosted the daily mid-day sports talk show.
Following the 2013 season, the Yankees moved their radio rights from WCBS to WFAN, and announced that Waldman and John Sterling would return for their tenth year together in the broadcast booth. She signed a two-year contract extension in February 2016 that ran through the 2017 season.
On December 16, 2017, Waldman signed a contract through the 2018 season. She is currently under contract through the 2026 season.
From June 29–30, 2019, Waldman called the first MLB games played in Europe, when the Yankees played the Red Sox in London.