A view of the baseball field from the Lexus Diamond Club at Angels Stadium on May 19. News Editor Marcos Lizarraga was invited by a member of the Angels Research and Development Department to discuss potential career paths post graduation. Photo by Marcos Lizarraga
If you had asked me during my first year at Pepperdine what my future looked like, I wouldn’t have been able to give you a clear answer. Like a lot of first-year students, adjusting to college life was rough for me.
I enrolled as an Economics major, not because I enjoyed it, but honestly because that’s what Brad Pitt’s character in “Moneyball“ studied — and I thought Brad Pitt was cool.
I constantly wrestled with what I was truly passionate about. That was until the trajectory of my life was changed over a game of ping-pong.
I remember playing a game of ping-pong with a few of the freshmen Pepperdine Baseball pitchers. Between rallies, we talked about our favorite MLB players and teams. When I mentioned my deep love for the game, one of the pitchers asked me if I’d ever thought about applying to work for the University’s baseball team.
Up until that night, I had no idea an opportunity to work in sports even existed on ca...