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Although she survived breast cancer in 1996, she lives with fear of a recurrence.
Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman, who is in her 36th season covering the team, was selected Monday for induction into the Radio Hall.

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Suzyn Waldman Biography

Suzyn Waldman has been the color commentator on New York Yankees radio games since 1995. Waldman has been a pioneering female broadcaster for her entire career. Only a handful of other women have called games in any capacity for a major league team. She started working for WFAN in 1987, covering the Yankees and New York Knicks while also being heard on-air in a variety of capacities. Waldman has also worked as a reporter for the YES Network on their pre and post game Yankees coverage. Prior to being a broadcaster, she worked as a theatre actress. Shortly after starting to call Yankees games, she was diagnosed with breast cancer but has been in remission for several years.

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Susan Waldman

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Interview conducted by Vishwa Bhatt

August 13, 2020

Transcription by Hannah M’Lynn and Anjali Mehrotra

[Note on COVID-19: Due to strict social distancing guidelines, this interview was hosted as a phone call and recorded using a mobile application.]

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Okay, I’m recording.

Okay, I see where that is at the bottom--oops! Where’d I go? (rustling) (silence) Okay.

Okay, this is cool. (pause) Okay, I’m pulling up the questions… (pause) (scuffling) (pause) (click) (pause) Alright, so I guess we can start at (laughs) the beginning. So, can you tell me a bit about your background? Where you were born? Where you went to school, your family?

Okay. Well, my claim to fame is that I was born in the Bronx.

Wow!

So I like to tell people that I have New York blood.

(laughs)

I moved to New Jersey when I was 2.

Okay.

And the rest of my life was, uh, was in New Jersey except for when I went away to college and uh, after I got married. But--no, that’s not true. I was still in New Jersey, so that part is still the same. I gre

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New York Yankees longtime broadcaster Suzyn Waldman picked for Radio Hall of Fame

Jul 25, 2022, 08:08 PM ET

NEW YORK -- Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman, MLB Network and Sirius XM Radio host Chris Russo and rock DJ Carol Miller were selected Monday for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame.

Radio hosts Broadway Bill Lee and Lon Helton, radio personality Ellen K and radio executives Jeff Smulyan and Marv Dyson also will be inducted in a ceremony in Chicago on Nov. 1.

The eight were chosen in secret voting by more than 600 industry professionals and the Hall's nominating committee.

Waldman, 75, is in her 36th season covering or broadcasting the Yankees, her 18th as a radio color commentator. She was the first woman to become a fulltime MLB broadcaster.

"Suzyn has informed and entertained Yankees fans with precision and care for 36 years," the Yankees said in a statement. "This accomplishment is the deserved result of decades of hard work and dedication to her craft, and we would be remiss to not laud her professionalism and resolve while staring down countless obstacles