Dodgers broadcaster Charley Steiner details cancer diagnosis, hopes to return to airwaves 'next year'

The highly anticipated World Series matchup betwixt the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers begins Friday night.

Prior to Game 1, longtime Dodgers vigor play-by-play broadcaster Charley Steiner, 75, revealed helium had been diagnosed with cancer. However, connected Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported that Steiner's aggregate myeloma humor crab was successful remission.

"Remission is simply a beauteous word," Steiner told the publication. "Monday was 1 of those days wherever it was like, ‘OK, we’re good.’"

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Charley Steiner speaks during a ceremonial to unveil a statue of erstwhile Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax astatine Dodger Stadium June 18, 2022, successful Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

Steiner has ties to the Yankees and Dodgers. He joined New York's vigor booth successful 2002, earlier moving to Dodgers broadcasts successful 2005. 

The power to the Dodgers afforded Steiner the accidental to enactment with legendary broadcaster Vin Scully. Steiner besides filled successful for TV broadcasts from clip to time.

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Steiner besides spent clip with ESPN, moving arsenic an achor and a boxing analyst.

Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Charley Steiner attends a crippled betwixt the Chicago Cubs and the Dodgers astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles June 25, 2018. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)

Steiner said helium experienced drastic value nonaccomplishment and was forced to usage a wheelchair during his bout with cancer. He besides deals with what the Times described arsenic "constant debilitating little backmost pain."

Steiner noted that the backmost symptom helium is dealing with initially surfaced astir a twelvemonth ago. Doctors diagnosed him with crab successful January.

Charley Steiner astatine a property league to denote the signing of halfway fielder Matt Kemp (not pictured) to an eight-year declaration astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles Nov. 18, 2011. (Kirby Lee/Image of Sport/USA Today Sports)

Steiner volition not resume his broadcast duties for the upcoming World Series.

"It’s been truly weird and pugnacious watching the Dodgers and the Yankees," Steiner said. "I broadcast some of them, yet I can’t bash either of them.".

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However, a Dodgers authoritative told the Times that the squad hopes Steiner volition instrumentality to the airwaves for the 2025 season.

"He’s portion of our family. We attraction astir him. We’ve been done this travel with him. We’re present to enactment him," said Lon Rosen, the Dodgers' vice president and main selling officer. "And, yes, we expect him backmost adjacent year."

Steiner besides seemed optimistic astir the future. 

"Remember erstwhile the Dodger fans would ever say, ‘Wait till adjacent year?’" helium said. "That’s me. That’s going to beryllium my time. Next year."

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