Media - 2024

Josh Rawitch is a Chatsworth High School baseball graduate. He was part of the 1994 LA City Championship game, and has enjoyed a 25+ year career in Major League Baseball. He is currently serving as the President of the Cooperstown National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum after previously working as their Sr. Vice-President.

Josh was the Director of Content and Communications for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and previously handled public relations for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was honored with the 2018 Robert O. Fishel Award which goes to the “active, non-uniformed representative of MLB whose ethics, character, dedication, service, professionalism and humanitarianism best represent the standards” of the longtime baseball PR executive for which the award is named. He was also honored by AEPi with the Teich Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award (less than 50 have been given out over 100 years).

A bilingual English and Spanish speaker, Josh helped the Dodgers negotiate a partnership with Univision Deportes Radio as the team’s Spanish language home. He has overseen media relations during trips to Mexico City (2003), China (2008), Taiwan (2010), Sydney, Australia (2014), and Hermosillo, Mexico (2015), in addition to goodwill tours of Japan, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic. In 2009, 2013 and 2017, he served as venue press chief for the World Baseball Classic, most recently in Seoul, South Korea.

An early advocate of social media, the Dodgers became the first team in MLB to create a program in which bloggers received media credentials and access to cover the team. Josh attended Indiana University, where he is an inductee of the University Jewish Sports Wall of Fame. He currently teaches Strategic Sports Communications at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and previously held the position of adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.