New White Sox announcer is first in MLB with physical disability
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He is a hometown boy called up to the big leagues from the south suburbs to the Cell. All eyes will be on the ground-breaking new television announcer this year, and he wouldn't have it any other way.
As Jason Benetti was introduced to the fans at Sox Fest recently, the team's new television announcer says it was all a bit surreal.
"I feel like I'm living someone else's life right now. I feel like, one day somebody's going to say 'no this was someone else. We got the wrong guy. We spelled it wrong.' Or something like that!" Benetti says.
The 32-year-old graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in the south suburbs is living with cerebral palsy. And he's believed to be the first person with a physical disability to hold that spot in major league baseball.
The first with a
physical disability; one of the Rays' Spanish-language broadcasters is blind. But that's odd considering that several players have had physical disabilities: Yankees/Tigers outfielder Curtis Pride is Deaf. Yankees/Angels pitcher Jim Abbott was born with one arm. Cardinals outfielder Pete Gray had an amputated arm (admittedly this was during WWII). And, of course, Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig had the disease properly known as ALS.
