Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomes 2025 Class of Frank and Peggy Steele Interns

(COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.) – Cooperstown is usually the place where all-stars finish their careers. But for the young women and men who comprise the 2025 Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development, the start of a new chapter in their professional lives is just beginning at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Eighteen college students arrived in Cooperstown June 2 to begin the 10-week Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

The program, which is hosting its 25th 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.

Selected from more than 800 applicants, this year’s intern class includes students from 17 different colleges and universities. From now through Aug. 8, Hall of Fame interns will work in different departments such as archives, collections, communications, curatorial, data analytics, education, library research, licensing, sales & marketing, membership & development, multimedia, public programming, social media and special events.

Along with their departmental duties, interns will showcase and write about various items from the Museum’s archives in artifact spotlights, host the annual Hall of Fame All-Star Gala and assist with events during induction weekend in July.

Since the program began in 2001, more than 400 interns have worked at the Hall of Fame and gained experience through Peggy Steele, who funded the program in honor of Frank, her late husband, and his commitment to education and leadership.

The 2025 class of Frank and Peggy Steele Interns (name/university/department): Diego Avila, Southern Methodist University (development); Jaeden Casasnovas, University of Michigan (licensing, sales and marketing); Thomas Crain, Indiana University-Indianapolis (collections); Bo Daugherty, University of Tennessee (archives); Phoebe Dickinson, Oberlin College (programming); Kieran Dougherty, Susquehanna University (multimedia); Noah Douglas, University of Nebraska (communications); Annika Edwards, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Library-Giamatti Research Center); Haydon Evenson, Gonzaga University (programming); Alyssa Frysinger, Binghamton University (curatorial); Nicholas Gentry, University of Maryland (Library-Giamatti Research Center); Phoebe Hong, Brown University (data analytics); Kenjiro Kajita, Grinnell College (curatorial); Isabelle Monk, University of Idaho (special events); Grace Nelson, University of Florida (programming); Lizzie Nelson, Trinity College (social media); Maeve Stanford, Smith College (programming); and Kathryn Yalch, University of Florida (data analytics).

Applications for the 2026 Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program will be available this October at baseballhall.org/intern and are due on Jan. 31, 2026.