A day after becoming the White Sox’s first female dedicated TV analyst, Chicago Sports Network field reporter Brooke Fletcher was still trying to process it all.
“It’s been an emotional 10 hours,” she said before Wednesday’s game against the Guardians. “I got home last night and I still felt like my head was kind of spinning. I’m like, ‘Wait, what just happened?’”
Fletcher filled in Tuesday with Steve Stone out because of an illness and was back at it again on Wednesday, working alongside play-by-play announcer John Schriffen. The White Sox hope to have Stone back on Friday, when they open a three-game series against the Kansas City Royals.
Fletcher wasn’t the first woman to work a White Sox TV broadcast. Mary Shane spent most of the 1977 season as their play-by-play voice with Harry Caray, Lorn Brown and Jimmy Piersall on WSNS-Channel 44. She also broadcast on WMAQ-AM, adding analysis on both.
Fletcher joined CHSN in 2025 to cover the White Sox. She is married to San Diego Padres infielder Jake Cronenworth and is the daughter of former White Sox infielder Scott Fletcher.
“I got a lot of texts and a lot of calls, and I was really appreciative of everybody just being so supportive,” Fletcher said. “It really meant a lot, especially with some women in this industry that I really look up to. Jenny Cavnar, Alanna Rizzo, Melanie Newman reached out.”