Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

The late Pete Brown broadcast Red Wing games from 1973-1980, leaving Rochester then for other assignments in Florida. He came to Rochester in 1964 to join the news and sports staff at Channel 10. He was also the radio voice of the Amerks from 1971-1974.

Brown, a Brooklyn native, worked out regularly with the Red Wings and occasionally pitched batting practice. A 1952 graduate of New York University where he played on both the Violet’s football and baseball teams, Pete also substituted occasionally on the Baltimore Oriole’s radio network. As he grew older, the radio personality underwent three bypass surgeries and suffered a near fatal heart attack while emceeing a Red Wings luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce in 1978. He passed on in 1998, leaving his wife, the former Anita Bronowitz, two grown children and two grandchildren.