From the Booth: A Cornell At Bat Blog Series

This is the first post in a six post series featuring the Cornell At Bat broadcasting team. These posts will appear throughout the Fall semester. For previous Cornell At Bat adventures, look here, here, here, here, and here.  

The 2012 season brought about many changes for the Big Red baseball team. Among those changes were their on field success taking them to their first NCAA Regional since 1977 and the foundation of a broadcasting program, Cornell At Bat, that brought them much deserved coverage.

In its inaugural season, Cornell At Bat and a very dedicated broadcast team brought nine regular season home games and five playoff games to the airwaves through Slope Media’s radio department at Cornell.  We were able to learn the ins and outs of covering a college baseball team and were on air for some of the team’s biggest moments in the history of the program. 

From Connor Kaufmann’s no hitter against Dartmouth to the Big Red’s Ivy League Championship Series over Dartmouth on Chris Cruz’s 11^thinning walk off home run, we were able to show fans just how good this team was.  After getting a taste of the experience last season, we have dedicated ourselves to bringing about much more coverage for the team immediately and for years to come.

This season, we have added new members to our broadcast team and at this time, have a very solid nine person team that includes Jesse Sherman, Adam Kirsch, Gabe Cassillo, Eddie McNelis, Kenny Kirschenbaum and myself from the class of 2015, and Cassandra Vilmenay, Alex Garcia, and Chad Edelblum from the class of 2016.  We have laid out a 24 game broadcast schedule including away games for the first time.  We have been given unprecedented access to the clubhouse by the coaching staff and armed with new top of the industry equipment, and we hope to bring about coverage that no Ivy League sports team has ever seen.

Our coverage includes expanding our following through social media, writing newspaper stories on the team for local Cornell publications, providing a weekly radio show dedicated to the team (with players and coaches joining us on the show), broadcasting games with video or on AM/FM radio stations in Ithaca, and using our own blog to give in depth analysis of the team and the players. 

With this blog post I am introducing a series that will be featured right here on the ILR Sports Business Society’s blog.  These posts will be written by some of our staff members, and we hope that they will help you understand what we do while getting more information on the team out there to you.  We tried to lay out topics that fit in well with the ILRSBS goals. I hope you enjoy them.  Stay tuned for our next post on how the Big Red will look to fill the roles left by last year’s seniors. 

For more information on Cornell At Bat or if you want to get involved, shoot Alex an email at ajg322@cornell.edu. 

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