View Full Version : how does one become a bat boy?
J Grundy#12
02-20-2005, 11:40 PM
how can u become a bat boy?
BasEbaLlKnoItAll
02-21-2005, 03:12 PM
contact your favorite teams equipment manager
hiddengem
02-21-2005, 04:49 PM
To be honest with you, if you don't know somebody that is already in the business its going to be next to impossible to land a job. That job is all about who you know not what you know, unfortunately.
Clubhouse managers literally get 100's of calls from people wanting to be bat boys and clubhouse attendants.
Isn't that revealed in the new Batman movie?
BasEbaLlKnoItAll
02-21-2005, 08:17 PM
hey, i never said that you'd get the job by contacting the equip. manager but thats the only way i could think of (besides obviously knowing someone). I remember seeing something on TV a few years ago they had a story on a kid who was an Astros batboy in spring training and the way he got it was by contacting the equip. manager but of coarse thats spring training so i assume that'd be easier to get. Good luck Grubdy, its basically impossible but no hamr in trying
Dremcvey
12-29-2007, 10:02 PM
you basically do have to know somebody. I got hired on as a batboy for the Mariners this last season and it's because I knew somebody who worked for the Mariners. The other three batboys were hired because they knew another batboy, so it is basically an insider thing.
plask_stirlac
12-29-2007, 11:51 PM
Start your own team and be the bat boy.
Gary Dunaier
12-30-2007, 12:54 AM
Bat Boy: My True-Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees (http://www.amazon.com/Bat-Boy-Adventures-Coming-Yankees/dp/0385510209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199001112&sr=8-1) is an interesting behind-the-scenes first-person account of one guy's experience as batboy with the 1992-1993 Yankees.
http://img.ebooks.com/previews/000/000222/000222504/000222504-sml-1.jpg
NickU
12-30-2007, 12:56 AM
the STL Carindals are hiring scorekeepers, if your looking for a job inside the league, you might have some luck here. You have to know how to operate a computer fairly well though, and type rather quickly
philipthegreat
12-30-2007, 05:00 PM
Money is a great motivator for some people within an organization.
$$ :hide:
mikeymussina35
12-31-2007, 06:50 AM
That would be so awesome to be a bat boy for the Yanks. It will never happen though!:rofl::rofl::noidea
bluezebra
12-31-2007, 11:36 AM
how can u become a bat boy?
I can't. I'm going to be 76 when the season starts.
Contact the front office of your local team. Each one has a different procedure. The Class A team I work with, has the Clubhouser Manager choose his batboys. Also, each state has differerent age requirements.
Good luck,
Bob
Williamsburg2599
12-31-2007, 11:56 AM
No matter how hard anyone tries, they'll never top this Bat Boy:
http://www.local6.com/news/9376604/detail.html
video on the right.
bluezebra
12-31-2007, 12:03 PM
how can u become a bat boy?
Yankee Stadium Wear Dreams Come True
How does one 'wear' a dream?
"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."
-Joe DiMaggio
Not true. Los Angeles Dodgers First Baseman Wes Parker came from a wealthy family. Parker was a fair-hiiting, slick-fielding player, who played nine years for the Dodgers.
And with multi-million dollar salaries, I doubt there are ANY hungry players today.
Bob