When news spread last week that John Sterling, the longtime radio voice of the New York Yankees, had died at age 87, my pal Buzz texted me three words: “That’s baseball, Suzyn.” That phrase is imbedded in the lexicon of true baseball fans. It was uttered regularly by Sterling to his broadcast partner, Suzyn Waldman, to sum up the endlessly entrancing and unpredictable nature of the game. He could have been saying, “That’s life, Suzyn.” Sterling joined the Yankees in 1989, and over more than three decades, he broadcast 5,651 games and five World Series championships before his retirement in 2024. “That’s baseball” is only one of his many indelible idiosyncrasies. I started rooting for the Yanks in 1949, when I was 6, and when one of my heroes launches a long ball, I’m known to stand and shout, in my best Sterling imitation, “It is high! It is far!…