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Spiegel & Holmes Show

It's Jackie Robinson Day in MLB — how can baseball improve its diversity?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Holmes and Russ Dorsey discussed diversity in baseball as MLB celebrated Jackie Robinson Day on Wednesday.

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0:00.0

With pinch batter Frank Keller did bat, Robinson dashes for the plate.

0:08.1

It's close, and umpire Summers calls him safe on the daring maneuver.

0:13.2

But Yogi Berra doesn't think so, and the fans will never forget the sight of Jackie

0:18.2

Robinson pairing for the plate on his daring steel.

0:21.7

Craig Counsel, the manager of the Cubs. It's Jackie Robinson Day.

0:24.6

Everyone gets to wear 42. What does it mean to you to wear 42?

0:28.2

Talking about people making hard things look easy, it's like, I think

0:32.3

Jackie Robinson maybe was the ultimate guy that did that, right?

0:35.6

I mean, I don't think any of us can appreciate how hard what he did was.

0:40.7

And so we should honor people that do that, man, because those are our role models.

0:47.8

Craig Counsel earlier today, that whole segment with Craig was excellent.

0:53.9

I highly recommend you go back on YouTube and watch it,

0:57.6

or you go back on the Odyssey app and use the rewind function and listen to it.

1:02.4

It was really, really great stuff from Craig Counsel.

1:04.7

And then there's also the stuff about all the injuries that the Cubs are having right now

1:09.0

and how they're trying to walk through it.

1:10.5

Russ Dorsey is sitting in for Speeg.

1:12.5

Speegs will be back tomorrow.

1:14.0

Russ is going to be hosting hit and run on Sunday.

1:17.6

So make sure that you show him some love.

1:19.7

Nine to 1245 Sunday morning.

1:22.7

He's going to be doing pre and post and the fifth inning, I believe, of the game Sunday, because

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