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Broadcaster Ed Farmer, who pitched for Tigers and famously brawled against Detroit, dies at 70

Chicago — Ed Farmer — a son of Chicago’s South Side who had an 11-year major-league baseball career including one season with the Tigers and then, for almost 30 years, was a radio announcer for the White Sox— died 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.