1. Hamptons Collegiate
Baseball
Danielle Braun
SEE 4099: SEE Internship
Summer 2012

2. • Interned with two teams
Overview of
• Responsibilities with both teams: experience
• Ensured field and dugouts were set up and ready for games
• Collect lineup cards from teams – input lineups into scoring system
• Kept score for every home game
• Wrote thank you letters to host families and sponsors
• Responsibilities with Sag Harbor Whalers only:
• Kept rosters up-to-date when new players joined the team
• Kept host families information up-to-date
• Kept track of which player was staying with which family
• Players’ stats (individual player, team and league)
• Attended every home game and away games and updated the status of the
games on Facebook and Twitter.
• What I learned:
• Scoring system (Gamechanger)
• League’s sponsorships and how league markets events

3. Interactions
Working with Supervisor Interaction with Other
• Main supervisor:
– Tom Gleeson (General
Employees
Manager for Sag Harbor • Worked directly with:
Whalers)
– 1 other intern for Sag
• Kind
Harbor Whalers
• Helpful
– 1 other interns for
• Willing to teach me about
anything and everything I did Shelter Island Bucks
not already know • Interns were always
• Knowledgeable in the sports willing to help each other
industry and baseball •
industry Constantly in contact
with interns to inform
them of changes to
roster (new
player/uniform changes)
• Worked with
Westhampton GM to
mail out thank you letters

4. Major
Accomplishments
• Marketing
– Put to use the knowledge gained in Marketing classes to properly
market the league
• Networking and Collaboration
– Became comfortable networking and initiating conversations
• Learned how a league such as Hamptons Collegiate
Baseball is run and organized
– How they set up rosters and recruit/scout out players
– How they obtain sponsors
– Day-to-day operations of the league
– Logistics involved with running the league such as finding host
families for players to stay with

5. Personal Goals
• Gain knowledge into the sports
industry
• Experience different aspect of
industry
– Previous experience has been in
the event industry
– Want experience in sports
industry since this is where I want
to be for my career
• Memorable experience
– Want internship to be memorable
and something I take with me into
all future career endeavors
• Enhance networking skills
– To become more comfortable
networking

6. History
• 2008 – one team (Hampton Whalers) competed in Kaiser Division of
ACBL
• 2009 – four new teams added (North Fork Ospreys, Southampton
Breakers, Riverhead Tomcats, Westhampton Aviators)
• 2009- Hampton Whalers become known as Sag Harbor Whalers
• 2009 – Riverhead Tomcats win Wolff Division championship
• 2010 – Four new managers brought in to manage the teams
• 2010 – North Fork Osprey’s took ACBL title (HCB’s second league
championship in two years)
• 2012 – HCB adds two more teams (Shelter Island Bucks, Center
Moriches Battlecats)
* ACBL – Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League
* HCB – Hamptons Collegiate Baseball

7. Organizational Overview – Mission
Statement
“Hamptons Collegiate Baseball is a non-
profit organization that partners with local
businesses and community members to
provide Eastern Long Island with world-
class collegiate baseball in a small town
setting. HCB is committed to improving
community ball fields and providing free
family entertainment to our community.”

8. Organizational Chart and Student’s
Role in Organization
• President – Brett Mauser
• Vice President – Skip Norsic
• Controller – Dawn Schlegel President/Director of Recruiting
• Board of Directors – local
business owners and sponsors of Vice President Controller
league
Board of Directors
• Executive Committee – all GMs
from all 7 teams in league Executive Committee
(General Managers)
• Baseball Advisory Board – head
Gameday Staff/Interns
coaches at Universities, Associate
Scout for Phillies, Area Scout for
NY Mets, HCB Founder, Area Baseball Advisory Board
Scout for NY Yankees, head MLB
Scout for Northeast Region, and
many others

9. Description of projects
• Scout’s Day
– July 9, 2012 at home field for
Southampton Breakers
– Responsible for having copies of rosters
available for scouts (rosters had to be up-
to-date)
• All-Star Game
– July 19, 2012 at MCU Park – home of the
Brooklyn Cyclones
– Responsible for updating Facebook and
Twitter with play-by-play of the game
• Wounded Warriors Charity Softball
Game
– August 4, 2012
– Home field for Sag Harbor Whalers
– Responsible for marketing this game
throughout the season and will be
working at the game

10. Project Review Process – Planning
Process – Specific Examples
• Schedule already
planned for events before
my internship began
• During season:
– Marketing
• Social Media (Twitter and
Facebook updates)
• Brochures/Programs (new
ones every week included
write-ups on players and
teams throughout league
as well as stats on
players)
• Flyers (mainly used when
marketing Wounded
Warriors game)

11. Professional Skills
• Organizational Skills
– Rosters and players’ information
• Must be accurate and kept up-to-date and ready to give to those who want it (scouts, General
Managers, etc.)
– Host family information
• Must be accurate
• Must know at all times which players are staying with which families
• Collaboration and Communication Skills
– With other interns
• Must inform all interns when new players joined the team
– With players, General Managers, Coaches and other staff members
• To complete and mail out thank you letters to host families and sponsors
• Any additional tasks that needed to be done before, during, or after a game
• Marketing Skills
– Wounded Warriors Charity Softball Game
• Handed out paper flyers
• Updates to Facebook and Twitter with specifics of the Game and when it will take place
– Social media
• Twitter and Facebook updates throughout every game
– Play-by-play, new pitcher, pinch hitter/runner, and any other important updates throughout every game
– Updates when game was changed or rained-out
• Updates and marketing for events throughout the season (All-Star Game, Wounded Warriors
Charity Softball Game, etc.)

12. Personal Reflections
Knowledge gained at J&W:
• Gave me the background needed to
complete this internship
• Gave me the basic knowledge of the
industry which allowed me to understand
what was being asked of me throughout
the internship.
• Gave me the confidence to complete
tasks I’ve never done before because I
knew I had the basic knowledge to
complete it.
Overall experience:
• Had a great experience with Hamptons
Collegiate Baseball.
• Learned a lot about the sports industry
and baseball industry.
• Have had an extremely memorable
experience which I plan to take with me
in my future endeavors throughout my
career.

13. Works Cited
“Hamptons Collegiate Baseball.” History. 29 July
2012
<http://www.hamptonsbaseball.org/page/show/1
83329-hamptons-collegiate-baseball-history>
Hamptons Collegiate Baseball 2012 Yearbook.
July 2012. 29 July 2012.
For pictures:
My own photos
Mahoney, Bonnie Rae. Facebook. 29 July 2012.
<http://www.facebook.com/sagharborwhalers>