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Informational interviews with 20+ professionals with careers in baseball. Learn what jobs there are in baseball from general managers to interns.
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From sports commentator or broadcaster to a career in the world of sports journalism, here are eight answers to the question, “What are some good suggestions for a sports career for a non-athlete?” Sports Commentator or Broadcaster Physical Therapist Sports Communications Social Media Marketing Sports Medicine Sports…
How can someone become an usher at a sports arena? To help you become an usher at a sports arena, we asked business leaders this question for their best tips. From approaching an usher in-person to searching job boards, there are several tips that may help you become an usher at a sports arena in…
Interview: How To Become A Baseball Equipment Manager Tim Meckener is the Minor League Equipment Manager for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. We are riding on a shuttle between hotels at Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. What does a Minor League Equipment Manager do? Basically all our affiliates, top to bottom, short…
The Road To General Manager At age 18, Billy Beane had more hype surrounding him than LeBron James did coming out of high school. Scouts would flounder to his high school and drool at the opportunity of drafting the 6′4, power hitting sensation. The New York Mets got that opportunity, taking Billy with the 20th pick…
Gary Pressy was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. He has been with the Cubs for 20 years. He was playing the organ in Harry Carry’s restaurant when the Bartman ball was blown up, and played Take Me Out To The Ballgame at longtime Cubs announcer Jack Brickhouse’s funeral. He got the…
To this point, we’ve heard 23 different stories of how people have broken into the sports industry, and no story is the same. We have come to the obvious realization that there is not one standard path to get in! These sports stories are among the most entertaining that I’ve heard on the trip. I…
I’m Pat Gallagher. I’m the President of San Francisco Giants Enterprises. The question is where I was at 21 years old. I’ve had kind of an odd career path. Actually I was, well, I hate to admit this, but I’m a college drop out. I was an art student in college…went to San Diego State…
Matt Klentak played baseball at Dartmouth all four years. He was the captain his senior year. “At the end of my junior year I got an internship at the Commissioner’s Office in the Baseball Operations Department. I got a chance to see, live, and breathe baseball all day. I totally drank the Kool-Aid.” I graduated…
I’ll try to give you the short version. I grew up around the game. My dad played minor league baseball and then scouted for the Cincinnati Reds for seventeen years. So I was born in Pennsylvania, and my dad had different areas around the country, so we moved around. I lived in Colorado, grew up…
When Jim was in the third grade, he wrote an essay about how he wanted to be a professional baseball player when he grew up. Throughout elementary, middle, and high school this dream never faded. That is, until he broke his wrist one year in high school and was unable to play. That year he…
Interview: How To Become an Account Executive Cory Shakarian is an Account Executive for the Los Angeles Clippers, after working for ten years with the San Francisco Giants. He has only been with the organization for a couple of months now and is getting a feel for the culture and how things are done around…
Trey started at Northern Arizona University (NAU) and got a theatre degree. After graduation he moved to Los Angeles to pursued his acting dreams. After looking for his acting break, like so many others in the area, he stumbled across an opportunity. One day, Trey was playing the first Tony Hawk video game with a…
Born and raised in San Jose, Faham attended Leland High School before enrolling at the University of Arizona to study Management Information Systems (MIS). He accepted a position, while in school, that pertained to his major and soon found that that he hated MIS! At that point, he thought that his decisions to pay out…
Dan Fumai is the Vice President Controller for the San Diego Padres. after spending eleven years with the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. His goal while attending Boston University was to become a partner in an accounting firm. Interestingly enough, he was one year away from accomplishing that goal when he left the firm for the Padres…
Tim Katzman is the Director of Corporate Communications for the San Diego Padres, and has been with the organization for 11 years. He started off as a professor in American Studies on the East Coast and ended up being in the right place at the right time. He created a position for himself with the…
