Ed Farmer, the voice of the Chicago White Sox for almost 30 years, dies
CHICAGO - Ed Farmer - a son of Chicago's South Side who spent 2 1/2 season pitching for the White Sox during an 11-year major-league baseball career and, for almost 30 years, was a radio announcer for the team - died on Wednesday night according to the White Sox. He was 70.
A member of the 1980 American League All-Star team while with the Sox, Farmer had been a full-time radio announcer for the White Sox since 1992, first as an analyst and, beginning in 2006, as a play-by-play man.
Farmer was plagued most of his life with polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disorder in which cysts form in clusters mainly around kidneys, eventually keeping them from functioning properly.
The same condition claimed the life of his mother, Marilyn, when she was 38 and Farmer was
