"Missing Baseball in Covid-19 with Jason Benetti" - Episode 021




Chicago Sports Talk with The Sportscaster and Her Son show

Summary: Two months without professional sports during Covid-19 has Jason and Peggy reminiscing about what they are missing. MLB would have celebrated Jackie Robinson day but they couldn't, so Peggy reaches into the Chicagoland TV archives for an interview with White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf who saw #42's baseball debut. Then White Sox announcer & ESPN broadcaster Jason Benetti joins the show to talk about baseball and what the White Sox were looking like before sports went silent. Peggy finishes the show with a memorial to her late friend ESPY's producer Maura Mandt.