S3E6: Robert Ford - Houston Astros Play-by-Play Announcer

Robert Ford has been doing radio play by play for the Houston Astros since 2013, when Astros were in the process of losing 100 games three years in a row.    The team followed that with three consecutive 100 win seasons in the same decade, the only team to ever do that.   

Robert shares about growing up a Mets’ fan in the Bronx where all the other neighborhood kids were rooting for the Yankees.  He tells how he learned about baseball because his mother, a school teacher, encouraged his reading and he wanted to prove to his schoolmates that he really knew baseball.  He talks about his all time favorite call of Alex Bregman’s walk-off RBI single in Game 5 of the 2017 World Series.   

Robert tells stories from his father’s days a pioneer in Hip Hop music, first as a writer at Billboard magazine, then as a producer.  He shares about how Hip Hop developed in Harlem from the Disco music scene, and being in the studio with his dad Rocky Ford and meeting Run-DMC, Curtis Blow, and the Beastie Boys.