It’s nearly impossible for a “good field, no hit” utility infielder to make it all the way to the Baseball Hall of Fame, but Josh Rawitch managed to pull it off.
“I was on my high school baseball team, but it was more for my hustle and work ethic than for my talent,” said Rawitch, the current President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Rawitch assumed the enviable position in August 2021 after a career spent in the front office of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. He sat down with Sports Collectors Digest and reflected on his lifetime in baseball as a fan, a modestly talented player and a team executive before assuming his current job.
“When I moved to New York and got my license plate I discovered they have special plates in Cooperstown and I was issued one that read ‘256 – BBL,’” Rawitch recounted. “I thought, ‘They have my lifetime average!’”
Though his playing career was short-lived his connection
