President and Leadership Team

Josh Rawitch

President

Josh Rawitch is in his fifth year as President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and his 32nd season working in the baseball industry. Rawitch oversees the daily operation of the non-profit, educational institution, which employs nearly 100 full-time staff members with the mission to preserve history, honor excellence and connect generations.

During his first four years at the Hall of Fame, Rawitch has focused on strategic growth opportunities that help the 86-year-old institution continue to stay relevant with the next generation of fans and visitors. This includes the incorporation of technological advancements, unique events such as the Savannah Bananas game (2023) and East-West Classic (2024), a sold-out tribute to the Negro Leagues All-Star Game and groundbreaking new exhibits.

Among the Hall of Fame’s newest exhibitions are Yakyu | Baseball: The Transpacific Exchange of the Game (2025), The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball (2024) and Getting the Nod (2025) focused on the history of bobbleheads.

In 2026, the Hall of Fame will celebrate America’s 250th birthday with a series of events and new exhibits while completing a $14 million renovation that includes open a brand new Museum Store on Main Street.

The Hall of Fame welcomes more than 250,000 visitors annually and the Museum’s collections contain more than 40,000 three-dimensional artifacts and over three million documents in addition to more than 150,000 baseball cards, 250,000 historic images and 16,000 hours of audio and video recordings.

Rawitch came to Cooperstown following 10 seasons at the Arizona Diamondbacks and 15 seasons at the Los Angeles Dodgers. With the D-backs, Rawitch served as the Senior Vice President of Content and Communications, overseeing numerous departments within the club’s Business Operations.

A bilingual Spanish-speaker, he oversaw media relations during trips to Mexico City (2003), China (2008), Taiwan (2010), Sydney, Australia (2014), and Hermosillo, Mexico (2015), in addition to goodwill tours of Japan, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic. In 2009, ‘13 and ‘17, he served as venue press chief for the World Baseball Classic.

He joined the Dodgers in 1995 and spent parts of five seasons in Marketing before moving to Public Relations. He left the organization for two seasons and became one of MLB Advanced Media’s earliest employees, serving as a beat reporter covering the Dodgers (2001) and Giants (2002).

The Los Angeles native attended Indiana University, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Marketing and Management with a minor in Business. He has taught Strategic Sports Communications at both Arizona State University and the University of Southern California.

Rawitch was honored with the 2018 Robert O. Fishel Award which goes to the “active, non-uniformed representative of MLB whose ethics, character, dedication, service, professionalism and humanitarianism best represent the standards” of the longtime baseball PR executive for which it is named.

He has previously served as a trustee for the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame and on the board of directors for the Greater Phoenix Chamber, Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, ASU’s Sports Business Advisory Board and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He has helped organize MLB’s Winter Meetings annual auction, which has raised more than $2.5 million for various charities.

He and his wife, Erin, have 2 children, Emily and Braden, and reside in Cooperstown.