About Ripken Baseball
16W Marketing, the New Jersey based sports marketing firm that provides a variety of services to its select, high profile clients, has been chosen to help Ripken Baseball manage and coordinate the marketing activities of future Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. and his baseball-related business interests. Prior to this alliance, Ripken Baseball, whose mission – more... is to "Grow the game of baseball worldwide 'The Ripken Way,'" coordinated the marketing of Cal Ripken, Jr.'s personal and business ventures internally. The Ripken Baseball Group comprises Youth Camps and Clinics, the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, the Aberdeen IronBirds, a minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, and Ripken Management & Design. In addition, Ripken Baseball maintains an active partnership with Babe Ruth League, Inc. - - which led the organization to rename its 12 and under division The Cal Ripken League in 1999. According to Steve Rosner and Frank Vuono, 16W co-founders, their charge will be to seek strategic partners for Cal Ripken's endorsement portfolio, as well as for his baseball businesses in terms of sponsorship, marketing and branding opportunities - - all of which will help Cal achieve his mission of growing baseball. 16W Marketing provides its clients, both corporate and individual, with hands-on representation by agency principals, licensing development, special events management and more. Rosner oversees the athlete representation and event management portions of the business, while Vuono heads up the corporate consulting and licensing activities of the firm. "As one of the most successful and well-respected baseball players of all time, both on and off the field," Rosner stated, "Cal Ripken meets 16W Marketing's criteria for the type of individual we want to represent. We have carved out a niche by focusing our individual representation work on prominent retired athletes who are highly-respected in the industry and by the public. Cal obviously fits right in with Howie (Long), Phil (Simms), Boomer (Esiason), Clyde (Drexler) and Cris (Collinsworth) and our other 16W Marketing clients." Vuono added: "It's an honor to be working with Cal and representing Ripken Baseball, especially to help them find corporate partners who will use the Ripken Brand to make baseball more fun for kids and, therefore, increase participation." According to Chris Flannery, COO of Ripken Baseball: "Our organization selected 16W Marketing after a very long and detailed review of numerous athlete/celebrity representation agencies around the country. We found that not only were their experience, expertise and contacts in the marketing and licensing arenas unmatched in our search, but their dedication to the principles that Cal holds so highly - - commitment, community, honesty, family values, teamwork and sportsmanship - - best matched our own views." Cal Ripken is often considered the most popular and marketable baseball player of our time by fans, the media and corporate America. In addition to breaking Lou Gehrig's Iron Man record and playing in 2,632 consecutive major league games, Ripken is one of only seven players to achieve 400 home runs and 3,000 base hits in a career. Off the field, polls continuously place Ripken alongside Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as one of the most recognizable and popular athletes of our generation. – less – More from ZoomInfo »
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Productive and fun workplace with great co-workers
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