Gregory brown pirates biography

American sportscaster

For other people by this name, see Greg Brown (disambiguation).

Greg Brown is an American sportscaster, born in Washington, D.C., who has worked as a play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates on SportsNet Pittsburgh and KDKA-FM since 1994.

He works with Bob Walk, Neil Walker, Matt Capps, Kevin Young, and John Wehner. Originally, Brown called games with Lanny Frattare until Frattare retired after the 2008 season.

Gregory brown pirates biography

Brown grew up in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He became a Pirates fan through the broadcasts on KDKA radio and would visit Pittsburgh each summer with his parents to see baseball games at Three Rivers Stadium. Brown enrolled at Point Park College and landed an internship with the Pirates' promotion department in 1979, where his duties included serving as the inaugural backup Pirate Parrot.

(The Pirates would go on to win the World Series that year.) He then worked in the Pirates' front office for 10 years in a