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In MLB, do the bat boys travel on road trips with their team, or are bat boys furnished for visitors by the home stadium?

What do they do during school months?




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I don't believe they travel. I had a friend that was a bat boy for the Padres in like 89 to 91 if I remember correct and he made darn good money from all the cash tips from the players. He only worked home games. Made enough money to buy a buy a brand new Acura cash money at 19 yo.
 
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They're not all boys.

The young lady currently down the first base line for the Padres plays catch with the right fielder between innings and I'll tell you what; she knows how to toss them balls - with accuracy!






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Home team provides bat boys. During the Summer, some of the boys maybe kids of players or, other team employees.

During the school year, the boys tend to be older or, on a different school schedule. The club house manager is responsible for getting them up to speed on what to do, usually they have a rotation of kids they can call-on.
 
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Home team provides bat boys. During the Summer, some of the boys maybe kids of players or, other team employees.

During the school year, the boys tend to be older or, on a different school schedule. The club house manager is responsible for getting them up to speed on what to do, usually they have a rotation of kids they can call-on.


I suppose each team has to furnish uniforms in various sizes as it travels around.

I bet there are plenty of “volunteers.”




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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The local AAA team has a Bat Dog as well as Boys. Local guy who is doing it for the publicity for his dog training school. Actually pretty cool.

In addition to retrieving the bats it also takes a cooler of water out to the 2nd base umpire and then also comes back and gets it.
 
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Oddly, they all answer to the name "Robin."


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