Ah, summer! Ah, baseball!!

cathymee
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:43:54 +0000

hey all you basebal fanatics
here’s a lifestyle choice for you all to be jealous of…
S,majoring in Sports Management down in South Carolina, already has gone on a 2 week bus trip (for credit!) visiting major and minor league parks along the eastern seaboard for a course called “Professional Baseball Stadium Management”.
This summer, for a credit bearing internship, he is working sometimes more than 80 hrs a week at a minor league Independent League stadium here on Long Island NY for the Long Island Ducks.Team is coached by Buddy Harrelson,League is owned/managed by Frank Bolton. He does everything from pulling tarp to selling tickets to ushering/security to playing the mascot to making cold calls for group ticket sales to preparing the luxury suites for groups, to exit greeting (say goodnight,move them along,hand stuff out).He’s getting quite an education in operations along the way.
Cost to attend a game?$10 a head.Sometimes theres fireworks afterwards, theres giveaways, entertainment between innings involving the audience, shoutouts to birthdays/anniversarys, colorguards of cubscouts, contests to sing the Anthem,a contest to be moved to sit on a “big comfy couch” each game (oh yes, another one of son’s job duties, carry the couch in and out each game!).
They routinely sell out the stadium (about 6500 seats) and this season have set attendance records many times, probably b/c people are looking for nearby things to do using less gas and costing less.
And…another perk…he’s getting 3 credits and a stipend, which he says if he works out the number of hours comes to about 2.50 an hour!!