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Charles Harris Steiner (born July 17, 1949) is an American sportscaster and
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. He is currently the
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play-by-play In Broadcasting of sports events, sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as a sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real time (media), real-time live commentary of a game or event, traditionally delivered in the present t ...
announcer for the
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, paired with Rick Monday.


Early life and education

Steiner was born in 1949 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. He grew up a
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fan in a Jewish family in Malverne, New York, already idolizing
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at the age of seven. He attended
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in
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, graduating in 1971.


Early career

Steiner began his career as a newscaster for WIRL radio in Peoria, in 1969, while still a student at Bradley. In 1971, after graduation from college, he began hosting his first sports show on KSTT radio in
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. A year later, Steiner moved to
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, and worked for WAVZ radio as its news director, before moving north to
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and WPOP radio in a similar capacity. In 1977, Steiner relocated to WERE (1300 AM) in
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, where he served as a sportscaster and later news director. While in Cleveland, he received his first television exposure when
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hired him as a sports commentator. Steiner entered the New York market in 1978 at WXLO-FM where he did newscasts for, among others, then-morning host and future actor Jay Thomas. He later moved over to sister station WOR for several years as its morning drive sportscaster, while working simultaneously as the sports director for the RKO Radio Network. He was also the play-by-play voice for the
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's
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entire existence from 1983 to 1985, and for the NFL's
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in
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and
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. It was during his time with RKO Radio that he was involved in a fracas at the conclusion of a
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after
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had won his semifinals match at
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in 1981. Throughout the tournament, McEnroe had consistently requested not to discuss the status of his relationship with then-girlfriend Stacy Margolin. When '' Daily Star''
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James Whittaker persisted in broaching the subject, McEnroe cursed at him and the
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media and prematurely ended the press conference by storming out of the room. Steiner confronted Whittaker to say, "C'mon, man, you are just messing it up for everybody else. We want to get our quotes." Right at that point, Nigel Clarke, another British reporter who then worked for the ''
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'', stuck his index finger in Steiner's face. Clarke then got up on a chair and attempted to rain punches down on Steiner who successfully wrestled his adversary to the floor. Surprisingly, Steiner later was personally thanked by the head of the
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who also had a disdain for the British tabloids.


Career at ESPN

Steiner joined
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in 1988, primarily as an anchor on ''
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''. In addition to those duties, he served as the network's lead
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analyst. Steiner was involved in many comical situations during his tenure on ''SportsCenter'', including one broadcast in 1993 when
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sang "
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" prior to a
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game. Amused by hearing Lewis' terrible rendition of the song, Steiner began chortling during the ''SportsCenter'' show that night, unable to stop until the show ended. His famous comment on the event was that the song had apparently been written by "Francis Scott Off-Key", a pun on the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner",
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. Steiner was featured in a series of well-known television promos from ESPN's '' This is SportsCenter'' comical promo campaign. In 1999, amid fears of the Y2K situation, Steiner starred in a promo where the ''SportsCenter'' cast spoke about a "contingency plan" at ESPN's studios ''after'' Y2K, and Steiner was featured wearing a tie as a head band (along with ''
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''-style face paint) and screaming the phrase "Follow me to freedom!" A second promo featured Steiner being traded from ESPN to ''
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'' in exchange for actor
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. While Shue delivers a straight-up report on a meeting with
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, Steiner is then seen wearing shorts and introduces himself to Laura Leighton (in character as Sydney Andrews) as the new "pool boy" in the show's apartment complex. Steiner starred in a third promo with boxer
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. In the opening shot, Evander questions Stuart Scott about Steiner's assessment that Holyfield is only the "50th best heavyweight of all-time"; Stuart then deadpans that he meant "the 50th best heavyweight — in Georgia". In the final scene, an angry Holyfield is seen roaming the halls of ESPN screaming, "Charley! Come on out and get your whoopin'! Charley, come on out! Steiner!" Steiner is seen cowering under a desk. In another promo for the campaign, Steiner talks about how at ESPN the personalities can cover the sports that they enjoy and he says that his is boxing. During the promo several personalities try to pick a fight with him and he walks away from them all until the end when Steiner is getting into his car and
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comes up to him and Steiner takes out all of his frustrations out on Otto by punching him square in the face. On August 9, 2004, Steiner returned to ESPN to co-host an "old school" version of ''SportsCenter'' with
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. Steiner also hosted a program on the
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called '' Football America'', which ran from 2003 to 2005. He has also been shown in frequent cuts of interviews for the network's NFL Top 10 series, discussing such subjects as former Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau. Cuts of his play-by-play of the Jets' September 1986 overtime victory (51–45) over the
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are used in retrospectives on that game. Steiner was also interviewed on the 1986
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playoff game in which he proclaimed the Jets would win following a fourth-quarter touchdown only to see the Browns tie the game and win in double overtime.


Baseball broadcasting


ESPN Radio

When
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gained broadcast rights for
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's national radio package from
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in 1998, Steiner became its lead announcer, working Sunday night games, the
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, and postseason games. (Steiner never worked the
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while he was calling games for ESPN Radio, however, as those were covered by then-lead TV voice
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.) Steiner's most controversial
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call came in the 2001 All-Star Game at Safeco Field on July 10. His utterance of "Who wrote this script?" to punctuate Cal Ripken Jr.'s third-
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homer off Chan-Ho Park fueled speculation about whether the achievement was legitimate or that the pitch was grooved to enable a legendary sendoff.


New York Yankees (2002–2004)

Steiner left ESPN in 2002 and joined the
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' radio booth, replacing Michael Kay as John Sterling's play-by-play partner. Steiner was at the microphone when Yankees third baseman
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won Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series with a home run in the eleventh inning to defeat the
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. After Steiner completed his call, he joined Sterling in his famous "Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!" call, saying he "had always wanted to do that". Steiner and Sterling reportedly had a contentious relationship during their three years together.


Los Angeles Dodgers (2005–present)

Steiner left the Yankees after the following season, his last game being the infamous Game 7 of the 2004 American League Championship Series in which the Red Sox completed its historic "reverse sweep" over its rivals after trailing 3 games to 0. He was originally slated to move to the
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as a studio host, but after Ross Porter, longtime radio voice of the
Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ...
(Steiner's favorite team growing up, with the team still based in
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) was let go by the team, Steiner was hired to take his place. For four years covering the 2005 through 2008 seasons, the Dodgers' unique broadcasting arrangement had Steiner teamed with analyst Rick Monday and working play-by-play on radio during all home and intra-divisional road games. However, Steiner's duties during these games would begin with the fourth inning and cover the remainder of the game, as the first three innings were a radio/television
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voiced by
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. Steiner handled television play-by-play on all other games (with analyst Steve Lyons), primarily road contests east of the
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. For the 2009 season, the Dodgers had Steiner and Monday as their radio team for all 162 games, though the Scully simulcast of the first three innings would remain. Starting in 2014, Steiner was paired with
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on the television broadcast for all games Scully did not call, and broadcast on the radio with Monday the other games. Steiner also used to host ''Baseball Beat'' on
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's MLB Home Plate channel, where he talked exclusively to writers, authors, columnists, broadcasters, or celebrities on their thoughts and analysis of the current state of baseball. Steiner's last episode of ''Baseball Beat'' aired on January 16, 2009. Following Vin Scully's retirement from the Dodgers after the 2016 season, the team split its radio-TV duties between Steiner and
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, with Steiner remaining on the radio side but switching to television on those occasions Davis has a
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assignment. Starting with the 2019 season he worked radio only with Tim Neverett and later Stephen Nelson replacing him as the alternate TV announcers. Steiner was unable to work any games for the Dodgers during the 2024 season due to his battle with
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blood cancer. Steiner returned to call the Dodgers' domestic Opening Day at Dodger Stadium vs. the Detroit Tigers on March 27, 2025 but apparently had to leave the radio booth at the 7th inning stretch due to cancer aftereffects (fatigue), as his 2024 primary replacement, Stephen Nelson, began the bottom of the 7th and called the final two innings alongside Rick Monday. Steiner's sudden disappearance from the booth was not addressed during the broadcast apart from a throwaway line from Nelson, "I didn't know I was going to work today."


Awards and accomplishments

Steiner, an Emmy Award recipient, was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame on November 9, 2013, becoming the 17th sportscaster admitted into the Hall. In December 2010 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from his alma mater
Bradley University Bradley University is a private university in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1897, Bradley University enrolls 5,200 students who are pursuing degrees in more than 100 undergraduate programs and more than 30 graduate programs in fiv ...
, where he gave the commencement address. Steiner received the
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award for "Best Sportscaster for New York,
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and
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" in 1981, 1983, and 1985. His football play-by-play work earned him the New York State Broadcasters Association Award for "Best Radio Play-by-Play" in 1983, 1984, and 1987. During his fourteen years at ESPN, Steiner won a CableACE award for a documentary on
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and a Clarion award for his coverage of the
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rape trial. Bradley named its school of sports communication for Steiner at a ceremony in March, 2015.


References


External links


Los Angeles Dodgers biography
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