On Wednesday July 19, students from the Interactive Multimedia Workshop met Dan Hart, the Director of Media Relations for the Pittsburgh Pirates.  

Students were taking up to the press box where they interviewed Dan Hart on his job.  He begins working in spring training roughly one week after the Super Bowl.  From then on, it’s a seven and a half month season with about 162 games.  

“You don’t know who I am but you know what I do,” said Hart when explaining his job.  

Dan Hart spends his time in between games coming up game information for the announcers to read on air.  During the game, Hart and his group of interns search for information relating to what’s happening.  

Dan Hart is a part of the smallest PR team in the MLB.  He has said that the most challenging part of his job is that he has 131 years of Pirates history to shift through for information.   

He loves working with the players and coaching them on how to interact with the media.  Hart says that his favorite part of his job is educating fans and players on obscure facts about baseball and Pirates history and sparking their interest.