Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomes 2026 Class of Frank and Peggy Steele Interns

(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – Among the thousands of ballplayers, parents, tourists and big leaguers finding their way to Cooperstown this summer, another set of new faces is also settling in on Main Street: The 2026 Frank and Peggy Steele Interns.

The 26th class of the Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Leadership Development arrived at the Hall of Fame on June 1. For 10 weeks, the interns will work across 11 departments, learning from Hall of Fame employees in each area to help honor and preserve baseball history for generations to come.

The interns will also participate in career seminars with Hall of Fame senior leadership staff and Steele Intern alumni, complete and showcase research on objects in the Museum’s archives, host the annual Hall of Fame All-Star Gala and assist with Induction Weekend events in July.

Selected from over 750 applicants, the 17 Steele Interns come to Cooperstown from colleges and universities across the United States. This year’s intern class will join a network of over 400 Steele Intern alumni who have gained experience at the Hall of Fame by way of Peggy Steele, who founded the program in 2001 in honor of her late husband Frank and his commitment to education and leadership.

The 2026 class of Frank and Peggy Steele Interns (name/university/department): Kal Demaree, Indiana University Indianapolis (collections); Abbey Dempsey, Florida State University (communications); Kelsey Diggs, University of Tennessee (programming); Quinn Faria, Bryant University (licensing, sales and marketing); Samuel Faust, Grand Canyon University (development); Mark LaPierre, Ringling College of Art and Design (social media); Tristan Latham, Simmons University (archives); Danica Lee, Cornell University (programming); Joshua Mandel, University of Michigan (data analytics); Samuel Oestreicher, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (programming); Braedon Olsen, Northwestern University (data analytics); Caleb Ritter, Simmons University (Library-Giamatti Research Center); Nicole Román Abreu, University of Washington (curatorial); Brandon Tang, Wesleyan University (multimedia); Anna Thomas, Wesleyan University (programming); Joshua Turner, North Carolina State University (development); and Elizabeth Zomeri, Simmons University (archives).

Applications for the 2027 Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program will be available this October at baseballhall.org/intern and are due on Jan. 31, 2027.