Oct. 21, 2024 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo
For someone who wants to work in baseball in the future, Nate Beebe had a dream internship this summer.
Beebe, now a senior in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, spent his summer interning at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Beebe was one of 16 students chosen for the 2024 Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development. The program, which hosted its 24th class, offers interns the opportunity to learn from Hall of Fame employees, senior leadership staff and Steele Internship alumni through various seminars and career development events.
Beebe said the idea to apply for the internship came from RST Teaching Associate Professor Mike Raycraft. Beebe’s role involved compiling reports for leadership and developing new queries for specialized searches, building his skills as a data analyst. Additionally, he had the opportunity to create a 10-minute presentation for museum guests about artifacts not currently on display.
“I worked very closely with Kimberly Adler (manager of Data Analytics) and Jason Schiellack (director of Membership and Annual Giving),” he said. “Kimberly was who I did all of my day-to-day tasks with, and she helped me become acclimated to the systems that were being used and the practices in place at the Hall.”
Beebe said he enjoyed his time in upstate New York, working at what many regard as the best of the four major sports’ Halls of Fame.
“The feeling that I had is probably best described as excitement,” he said. “There’s just so much history in Cooperstown, and I couldn’t believe that I was going to get to work there every day for 10 weeks.”
While interning, Beebe lived about 30 minutes south of Cooperstown in Oneonta. The nearby State University of New York campus has a relationship with the Hall of Fame and directs interns to stay in the college’s dorms, he said. He took advantage of the location by taking day trips to Philadelphia and New York City for baseball games.
Those trips could be viewed as scouting for future work opportunities.
“I would like to work in baseball after graduation,” Beebe said. “I’m not sure if I want to pursue that immediately after school or try to work in a corporate environment first and develop some skills, but, eventually, I would like to work in some type of data analytics role with a baseball team.”
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