Dodgers Broadcaster Sidelined With Multiple Back Fractures
Dodgers broadcaster Charley Steiner has been conspicuously absent from the broadcast booth in spring training. Wednesday, the 74-year-old revealed why through the Dodgers’ official Twitter/X account:
Steiner is entering his 20th season with the Dodgers as the team’s primary play-by-play broadcaster for the club’s radio broadcast on KLAC (570-AM). Tim Neverett has been filling in for Steiner, a five-time Emmy Award winner and National Radio Hall of Famer.
Before joining the Dodgers, Steiner broadcast three years for the New York Yankees on WCBS Radio and the YES Network. Prior to his seasons with the Yankees, Steiner spent 14 years at ESPN, where his responsibilities ranged from anchoring SportsCenter to working play-by-play for Major League Baseball and Saturday Primetime Football.
Steiner served as SportsCenter’s primary boxing reporter/analyst and also contributed to the Emmy and CableACE Award-winning Outside the Lines series. Steiner called the 2006, 2009 and 2013 World Baseball Classics for XM Radio and MLB International, respectively, and broadcast MLB games live from seven different countries.
Steiner graduated from Bradley University. Its School of Sports Communication has been named in his honor since 2015.
Steiner, who was inducted into the Bradley’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1995, also established the Charles H. Steiner Endowed Scholarship, which is given annually to Bradley broadcasting majors. In March 2022, Steiner was inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame.
Steiner began his professional broadcasting career in 1969 at WIRL Radio in Peoria, Illinois as a newscaster, and made career stops in Davenport, New Haven, Hartford and Cleveland before returning to his native New York, where he was the morning sportscaster on WOR radio, while serving as sports director for the RKO Radio Network. In addition, Steiner called the play-by-play for the USFL New Jersey Generals and, later, for the New York Jets on WABC radio.
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THANKS FOR THE STEINER UPDATE, BUT WERE MISSING VALUABLE INFORMATION. CAN SOMEONE PROVIDE THE FANS WITH THE RESON/S RE HOW HE COMPOUND FRACTURED HIS BACK IN 3 AREAS?
This read like an obituary rather than an update on why he’s been missing and the cause of the back injury.
THANKS FOR THE STEINER UPDATE, BUT WERE MISSING VALUABLE INFORMATION. CAN SOMEONE PROVIDE DODGER FANS WITH THE CAUSE AND/OR REASON/S FOR THREE COMPOUND FRACTURES IN HIS BACK?
Heard ya the first time!
Get well. Charlie.