CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox say former play-by-play announcer Lorn Brown has died.
Brown died on Thursday in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 71. The White Sox did not provide a cause of death.
Brown called games on television and radio from 1976-79 and 1983-88. He also did games for DePaul, Notre Dame, Bradley, the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference before moving in 2005 to Las Cruces, where he worked for New Mexico State.
Hired by Bill Veeck, Brown worked alongside Harry Caray, Jimmy Piersall, Don Drysdale, Early Wynn and Del Crandall in the White Sox booth. He was at the microphone in 1983 when the White Sox clinched the AL West title to reach the postseason for the first time since 1959.
