Friday Sports Forum

Bill Brown returns for his 23rd season as the club's primary play-by-play voice on television. He joined the Astros in 1987 after working as senior producer and anchor of the Financial News Network's SCORE program  Prior to that assignment, he was sports director of the Sports Time Cable Network which televised selected games of the Reds, Royals and Cardinals. Brown spent one year with HSE in Pittsburgh and was the television voice of the Cincinnati Reds from 1976-82.  He was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame on November 12, 2004. Bill is a member of the Advisory Board of the Houston Taping for the Blind and has been a volunteer reader for 13 years. In October of 2007 Brown organized a charity golf tournament to benefit the organization.  Brown and his wife, Dianne, reside in Houston. They have one daughter, Allison, and three grandchildren: Luke, 7, Emma Kate, 5, and Caitlynn, 2.