FRONT OFFICE FRONT FIELD STAFF PLAYERS OPPONENTS 361 2016 REVIEW 2017 MEDIA GUIDE HISTORY RECORDS MINOR LEAGUES MEDIA MEDIA/MISC. Manager Rick Rentera addresses the media at SoxFest 2017. BROADCASTING KEN “HAWK” HARRELSON TELEVISION PLAY-BY-PLAY FRONT OFFICE FRONT Ken Harrelson, the 1968 American broadcasting career … served as play-by-play man for New York League Player of the Year, a two-time Yankees telecasts on SportsChannel New York in 1987-88 … Illinois Sportscaster of the Year and began his broadcasting career with Boston in 1975, where he five-time Emmy Award winner, begins worked until joining the White Sox in 1981 … Harrelson played his 33rd season in the White Sox Major League Baseball for nine seasons, helping the Red Sox television booth and ninth with analyst win the American League pennant in 1967 … enjoyed his finest Steve Stone … agreed to a multiyear season with Boston in 1968, when he hit 35 home runs with a FIELD STAFF extension prior to the 2016 season … major-league leading 109 RBI … hit 30 home runs when he will work an 81-game schedule this season, including most of split the 1969 season between the Red Sox and Cleveland the White Sox road games, the home opener and two games … also played with Washington and Kansas City during his vs. the Cubs at Guaranteed Rate Field … has been a finalist for career, which ended with a broken leg in 1970 … is credited the 2007, 2014 and 2017 Ford Frick Awards, presented annually with bringing the batting glove to baseball … played golf profes- since 1978 for major contributions to baseball broadcasting … sionally for three and one-half years, qualifying for and playing the broadcast level at Guaranteed Rate Field was renamed the in the 1972 British Open and winning some small tournaments, PLAYERS “Hawk Harrelson Broadcast Level” on 4/29/11 … was honored before beginning his broadcasting career with the Red Sox … with the 2010 Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports also competed on the Celebrity Golf Association and Celebrity Journalism in the broadcast category at the Union League Club Players tours, winning the Celebrity Golf Invitational in 1994 and in Chicago on 1/19/11 … past recipients of the award include Bob the Dan Marino Charity Golf Invitational in 1999 when he beat Costas, Pat Foley, Greg Gumbel and Brent Musburger … the Rick Rhoden in a playoff … participated in the Michael Jordan/ White Sox celebrated “Hawk Harrelson Night” on 6/8/10, where Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities Celebrity Golf Classic he was saluted by a number of special guests in a pre-game … Harrelson, who was an All-America basketball player in high ceremony … the Hawk’s exuberant home run call and colorful school, has been heavily involved through the years in raising OPPONENTS nicknames have become familiar to Sox fans … received the money for Chicago White Sox Charities, including hosting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Comcast SportsNet Awards annual Hawk Open charity golf outing … Harrelson and his Dinner in February 2007, which benefited the March of Dimes wife, Aris, have two children: daughter Krista and son Casey, … also worked in the broadcast booth for the Sox from 1982- and three grandchildren: Nico, Alexander and Hank Hawk … 85 … left the booth on 10/2/85 to become Sox executive vice his son Casey, who played in the White Sox minor-league president for baseball operations … after serving as the club’s system in 1999, is a professional golfer … the family resides general manager for one season, he resigned to resume his in Granger, Ind. 2016 REVIEW STEVE STONE TELEVISION ANALYST Steve Stone begins his 10th season the 2001 season to serve as a competition consultant before as a White Sox broadcaster, his returning for the 2003 season … serves as a baseball analyst ninth in the television booth with Ken for Comcast SportsNet Chicago, appearing on a number of the “Hawk” Harrelson and second with network’s shows … called postseason games for TBS in 2007 HISTORY Jason Benetti … agreed to a multiyear and also worked select national games for ESPN from 2005- contract extension prior to the 2016 06 … following his retirement in June 1982, was a member of season … was honored with the 2015 ABC’s “Monday Night Baseball” telecasts, working dual roles Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in with the Cubs in 1983 … pitched in MLB from 1971-1981 for Sports Journalism in the broadcast San Francisco (1971-72), the White Sox (1973, 1977-78), Cubs category at the Union League Club in Chicago on 5/4/15 … (1974-76) and Baltimore (1979-1981), going 107-93 with a 3.96 provided color commentary on the White Sox Radio Network ERA in 320 games … won the 1980 American League Cy Young during the 2008 season alongside Ed Farmer … was a 2008 Award with the Orioles, going 25-7 with a 3.23 ERA and nine RECORDS Ford Frick nominee … substituted for television analyst Darrin complete games … posted a 27-24 record with the Sox … was Jackson on six broadcasts during the 2007 season … spent 20 part of a 1973 trade that sent him to the Cubs and brought Ron seasons (1983-2000 and 2003-04) in the Chicago Cubs broad- Santo, his eventual broadcasting colleague with the Cubs, to cast booth working with Hall of Famer Harry Caray, and later, the White Sox … is a 1970 graduate of Kent State University Caray’s grandson, Chip … left his television duties following … resides in Scottsdale, Ariz. Hawk Harrelson’s Familiar Catch Phrases MINOR LEAGUES Ball four, base hit Ducks on the pond Right size, wrong shape Nicknames Be a two-strike hitter Gas, he gone! Stretch! Lance “One Dog” Johnson Cancel the postgame show Get Foul Should be … it is Carlos “El Caballo” Lee Can-o-corn Grab some bench Sit back, relax and strap “Black” Jack McDowell Catbird seat Hang with ‘em it down Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas Chopper, two-hopper He got a cookie there Stay Fair Cinch it up and hunker down Mercy! That ball hit deep Dreaded leadoff walk Pick to click You can put it on the board, MEDIA/MISC. Duck snort Rack ‘em up YES! 362 CHICAGO WHITE SOX FRONT OFFICE FRONT BROADCASTING JASON BENETTI TELEVISION PLAY-BY-PLAY Jason Benetti enters his second ever college football game at Guaranteed Rate Field on 11/9/16 season as a member of the White when Toledo defeated Northern Illinois, 31-24, in the “Huskie FIELD STAFF Sox television broadcast team, join- Chi-Town Showdown” … prior to joining ESPN, was the play- ing Ken “Hawk” Harrelson and Steve by-play voice of the Syracuse Chiefs in the International League Stone … will call a majority of the and worked for FOX Sports, Westwood One Radio and Time White Sox home games at Guaran- Warner Cable SportsChannel … was born with cerebal palsy teed Rate Field in 2017 … worked (CP) and is part of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation’s ‘Just Say a total of 84 games as the White Hi’ campaign that launched in 2015 … has presented to ESPN’s Sox play-by-play voice in 2016: 78 at U.S. Cellular Field (not ENABLED, the network’s resource group that celebrates and including the home opener and two games vs. the Cubs), three addresses employee diversity, including people with disabilities at Miami and three at Toronto … participated in a baseball … is a 2005 graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor’s PLAYERS experience for visually impaired students and visited patients degree in broadcast journalism, economics and psychology … at Ronald McDonald House during Sox Serve Week 2016 … worked as an adjunct professor at Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse since 2011, has worked as a play-by-play announcer at ESPN School for Communications … earned a juris doctor from Wake for college baseball, basketball, football and lacrosse, as well as Forest University’s School of Law in 2011 … … is a Chicago-area high school football … called the New Orleans Bowl, Poinsettia native, and graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School … Bowl, Military Bowl and Citrus Bowl (radio) as part of ESPN’s resides in Chicago. 2016-17 bowl coverage … also handled play-by-play for the first OPPONENTS ED FARMER RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY Ed Farmer enters his 26th full season to undergo a kidney transplant in 1991 … previously served on on the White Sox Radio Network and the board of directors of the Polycystic Kidney Disease Research 12th handling play-by-play duties Foundation … played for Cleveland (1971-73), Detroit (1973), 2016 REVIEW … enters his ninth season working Philadelphia (1974), Baltimore (1977), Milwaukee (1978), Texas alongside Darrin Jackson in 2017, (1979), the White Sox (1979-81), Philadelphia again (1982-83) the team’s second on WLS-AM and Oakland (1983) during his 11-year major-league career … 890 … broadcasted two seasons compiled a 30-43 lifetime mark with 75 saves … set a then Sox with Chris Singleton (2006-07) and record for saves in a season with 30 in 1980 and ranks 10th one with Steve Stone (2008) prior to Jackson … teamed with in club history with 54 saves … his 0.87 ERA in August 1979 John Rooney as the Sox color commentator for 14 seasons remains the lowest mark for a month by any Sox pitcher since from 1992-2005 … in 2004, Farmer and Rooney were named 1970 … made the American League All-Star Team in 1980 and HISTORY best radio team in the American League by USAToday.com … fired a perfect inning in the game … a native of Chicago, Farmer substituted for Rooney on Sunday radio broadcasts in 1991 graduated from St.