Today was such a cool day. Jonathan and I made our way to the USA baseball offices around 9:30. This is different than the USA baseball complex, but they are currently working on moving the offices to be at the complex. We then met Brittany, who is the marketing assistant director for USA baseball. Brittany primarily works with the host family program that USA baseball offers, a program where a family has the chance to host a rising baseball star from all over the world for a week. She showed us around the office, showing us famous trophies from over the years and introducing us to people in the office such as the CEO and finance director and i️nterns who are spending there summer working for USA baseball. Brittany then explained to us her background, how she was actually an intern that turned into the job that she has today. Brittany gave us many tasks throughout the day. Our first task was to make folders that would be given out to the national women’s team, as they have their identification process this coming weekend. This i️ncluded papers where players filled out their names, travel forms, medical forms and sorted and copied all of these into 50 folders. We then stuck labels onto all of these as well. After this, we were given a box of lanyards and had to label them with the names of the host family. This program happens very soon so most of what was going on in the office had to do with this. After this, we put together another folder filled with information that needed to go to the host family. This i️ncluded the schedule for the time and other general guidelines that the host family had to know. As we were working, i️t was very i️ntersting to hear the conversations that we’re going on in the office. There were conversations from the basketball game last night to how to best edit a picture for a pamphlet given out at a game. This was really cool to hear and I’m glad we were able to spend the day here.
