Andy Masur will succeed the late Ed Farmer as play-by-voice of the Chicago White Sox on WGN-AM 720 and the team’s radio network alongside longtime analyst Darrin Jackson, the station and ball club announced Tuesday.
Masur, who grew up in the Chicago area, spent the previous two seasons as the radio pregame host for White Sox baseball. He also regularly called an inning of play-by-play on Sox home games and was a back-up for both Farmer and Jackson, who joined the team’s TV broadcast team in 2000 and moved to radio in 2009.
Farmer, who spent most of his life batting a kidney disease, died April 1 in at a Los Angeles-area hospital at age 70.