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

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

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

"Remission is simply a beautiful word," Steiner told nan 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 nan Yankees and Dodgers. He joined New York's power booth successful 2002, earlier moving to Dodgers broadcasts successful 2005. 

The move to nan Dodgers afforded Steiner nan opportunity to activity pinch legendary broadcaster Vin Scully. Steiner besides filled successful for TV broadcasts from clip to time.

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

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

Steiner said he knowledgeable drastic weight nonaccomplishment and was forced to usage a wheelchair during his bout pinch cancer. He besides deals pinch what nan Times described arsenic "constant debilitating little backmost pain."

Steiner noted that nan backmost symptom he is dealing pinch initially surfaced almost a twelvemonth ago. Doctors diagnosed him pinch crab successful January.

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

Steiner will not resume his broadcast duties for nan upcoming World Series.

"It’s been really weird and reliable watching nan Dodgers and nan Yankees," Steiner said. "I broadcast some of them, yet I can’t do either of them.".

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However, a Dodgers charismatic told nan Times that nan squad hopes Steiner will return to nan airwaves for nan 2025 season.

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

Steiner besides seemed optimistic astir nan future. 

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

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