Lorn Brown (September 18, 1938 – June 24, 2010) was a

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who worked for

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Iowa Oaks (1973–1974) and

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(September 1974 fill-in),

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(1976–1979, 1983–1988),

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(1980–1981), and

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(1982), among other jobs. He once said that he changed the spelling of his first name from Lorne to Lorn because he didn't want to be confused with the actor

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. Brown's career included working alongside such baseball broadcasters as

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, and Bob Murphy, each a recipient of the prestigious Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor in the field. While a member of the Mets' TV broadcast team (WOR Channel 9), many Mets fans referred to him as "The Professor" because of his appearance; beside his greying beard and glasses, he would often choose to wear a vest or a tweed jacket on air. He was replaced in the Mets booth by

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, who would go on to become the highest-profile baseball broadcaster of his generation and winner of the Ford Frick award. According to

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, his work alongside Uecker could be strained:

Long baseball seasons demanded humor, and Uecker provided it. With the players, he was always charming; at other times, though, he could be brutally cold, as he was to his radio-booth partner from the year before, Lorn Brown. When Brown was doing the play-by-play, Uecker would turn off his mike, making himself inaccessible to a desperate Brown, a decent, earnest, and rather unimaginative man who couldn't easily make it through an inning without the help of a partner. Brown was stolid, plodding, hung up on statistics. He was also painfully ill at ease among ball players, and Uecker disdained him for it.

Brown's

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work included Bradley U., Drake U, Big 10, ACC, Missouri Valley, Notre Dame and Metro Conf. TV networks, as well as Chicago Bulls television from 1974 to 1978. Brown is a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame.''Ibid.''. Brown also turned his baritone voice toward work in the commercial voice-over field, narrating commercials for

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beer,

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, and the

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, among others. He was represented by Grossman & Jack Talent, Inc. He attended Mount Carmel High School in Chicago. Brown died from apparent

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on June 24, 2010, at the age of 71.

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Lorn Brown Obituary
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