John Sterling had been the voice of a generation for Yankees fans and had some of the most memorable home run calls of any local baseball broadcaster who sat behind a microphone.  On Monday, WFAN announced that the legendary broadcaster had died at the age of 87.  Sterling served as the Yankees’ radio play-by-play voice for 36 seasons and, over that time, created some of the most quotable baseball calls and nicknames, ranging from “Ballgame over. Yankees win. Thuuuuugh Yankees win” to “It is high, it is far, it is gone.”  But where Sterling got the most creative was his ability to come up with personalized home run calls for players. That led to Sterling generating 144 personalized home run calls, Pinstripe Alley once tabulated when the play-by-play man retired back in 2024 .  The idea of a personalized call was not something that Sterling started to do in baseball, and its origins date back to his time calling games for the Hawks in the NBA.…