| James Brown "Heart and Soul" of the High School Athletic Program |
| Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:54:34 AM - Middletown Ohio |
By: Tara Kunkle
James Brown had been the equipment manager for the Middletown Middies for 23 years. This past Sunday Brown passed away. Previously James had outpatient hernia surgery, after his blood pressure started to go up they put him in the hospital for 11 days.
The last Middie football game Brown got to attend was against Lakota West. Since he was not able to make it to the game with the upset over Colerain Middletown football coach Jason Krause gave him a game ball.
James started his love for the Middies when he was only three. He would watch the marching band practice at Barnitz Stadium. Boys MHS basketball coach Bob Ronai called James the “heart and soul” of the high school athletic program. Brown always took his job seriously with the equipment. If the Middies get new warm-ups or shoes they also get one for James too. Brown always celebrated with the Middies when they would win and cried when they lost.
There is now a hallway in the school that is named after him. In 1997 Brown was inducted into the school’s Pigskin Roundball Gold Medal Club, and named him “Mr. Middletown High.”
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