MLB All-Star Game Staffing for FanFest, Derby and Game Day
Event staff for brands at MLB All-Star Week: All-Star Village (formerly FanFest), Home Run Derby and game day teams, suite hosts and check-in staff trained for the league's biggest summer event.
Staffing All-Star Week Around the Village, Not Just the Game
Taking part in MLB All-Star Week? We supply the people behind brand programs across the whole week: and for the fan festival, brand ambassadors for the Home Run Derby and game day, for suites and client events, and for the neighborhoods around the ballpark. The 2027 All-Star Game is at in Chicago on Tuesday, July 13.
Most of the week's audience never sets foot in the ballpark. The fan festival that used to be called FanFest now runs as the All-Star Village, and in Philadelphia in 2026 it drew more than 111,000 visitors over four days at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, far more than the game itself can seat. It is a family crowd on summer vacation: children chasing autographs and trying batting cages, parents with time to stop, grandparents who saw their first All-Star Game decades ago. Brands that staff only for Tuesday night miss most of the people they came to reach.
The week also has distinct stops, and each needs its own team. The Village opens on the weekend, when the prospects' Futures Game and the MLB Draft also fill the calendar; Monday night belongs to the Home Run Derby, a prime-time show with a younger, louder crowd; and the game itself is on Tuesday. Suites and clubs are busy on both nights, and hotels and restaurants host client events around them. We plan headcount day by day, with the same core people moving between venues, so your brand looks consistent all week.
In 2027 the ballpark itself deserves attention. Wrigley Field is a century-old park in a dense neighborhood, with fewer seats than modern stadiums, limited premium space and very little parking. Fans arrive by train and on foot, the streets and rooftop venues around the park become part of the event, and a July storm off the lake can push everyone under cover at once. We staff Wrigleyville activations with people who know how that neighborhood works on a big night.
Unlike October baseball, All-Star Week is set years in advance, so there is no reason to wait. Send us your dates, venues and roles, and a quote comes back with staff to choose from. Booking in the spring gives you the best of the host city's experienced people before the summer calendar fills.
How We Run Your All-Star Week Activation, Village to Final Out
All-Star Week is really three events in one host city: a family fan festival that runs for days, a prime-time home run contest and a nationally televised game, with a steady stream of client entertaining around all three. Each draws a different audience and asks something different of your staff. Every Eleven8 team at the All-Star Game works to our 11-step event process, the same one we use at every major event, adapted here for a week that is fixed years in advance and can be planned properly. Because the host city and dates are set so early, we recruit and trial your team in the spring, run briefings in the weeks before, and use the week itself for what matters: welcoming families at the Village, keeping pace with the Derby and hosting guests well on game night. The same core team moves between venues, so your brand looks and sounds the same on Saturday morning and Tuesday night.
Your account manager takes charge once the booking is confirmed, with offsite operations management included at no additional cost. Channels for your team and ours open well before July, and we use them to settle Village booth rotations, Derby and game-night positions, suite assignments and guest-list procedures early, so the week itself runs on a plan everyone already knows by heart, from your brand team to the newest member of ours.
On each day of the week, staff clock in by geo-location, walk their part of your footprint, whether a booth on the Village floor, a stand outside the ballpark or a suite corridor, and are in place before doors open. A live channel connects everyone across every venue, so a rush after an autograph session or a storm delay on Derby night is handled at once.
11 Steps for a Successful All-Star Week Activation
Our process, applied to every day of All-Star WeekWho Works Your All-Star Village and Game Day Activation
Our All-Star Village and week staff run your space at the fan festival and the events around it. On the Village floor they manage lines for interactive experiences and autograph sessions, guide families through your booth, and keep the space tidy and inviting through long summer days. On Derby night and game day they move to your ballpark and street-level activations. They know the All-Stars and the week's storylines, are patient with young fans, and keep the same energy from the first morning to the final out on Tuesday.
Brands Activating at the All-Star Village With Eleven8
Our All-Star Week teams work with apparel brands, consumer goods companies, beverage brands, technology companies, banks and card issuers, and entertainment brands, along with the agencies that build their fan experiences. Some take a large space at the Village, some host clients in a suite on Derby night, and others run street teams around the ballpark all week. They all need staff who follow baseball, know this year's All-Stars and are at ease with a crowd full of families.
Eleven8 is an independent staffing agency - not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Major League Baseball, any MLB club, the All-Star Village or any host venue. "MLB All-Star Game", "Home Run Derby" and "All-Star Village" are trademarks of their owners and are used here only to describe where our staff work. We provide event staff to the brands and agencies activating during All-Star Week. All marks belong to their owners and are used for identification only.
How to Book Event Staff for Your MLB All-Star Week Activation
All-Star Week Event Staff Who Understand Baseball's Summer Showcase
All-Star Week is baseball without a rivalry. Fans in a dozen different jerseys stand in the same line, cheer the same home runs and take the same photos, and the mood is closer to a summer festival than a pennant race. That openness is good for brands, as long as the people representing them match it: warm, quick with a conversation about this year's All-Stars, and happy to spend a minute with a child holding a new glove.
The same approach carries over to other midseason showcases, including the and weekends, and to the far tenser atmosphere of the in October. When the game was in Philadelphia in 2026, it was played in the same South Philadelphia sports complex as , where our work through the year.
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What Eleven8 Brings to All-StarWeek
Built for the Celebration of Baseball — Not Just the Business of It
Only the top 3.5% of applicants join our roster, and for All-Star Week we choose people who love baseball and like people. They know the All-Stars, the storylines of the first half and the history of the host ballpark, and they bring warmth rather than a sales script to a crowd that came to enjoy the game together. That is what makes a family stop at your booth, and what makes them remember it, and talk about it, on the drive home.
Multi-Venue Coverage Across the Village, the Derby, and the Ballpark
All-Star Week spreads across several venues: a convention hall for the Village, the host ballpark for the Derby and the game, and hotels, restaurants and streets across the city for everything else. We staff and brief a team for each venue under one account manager, and move people between them as the week goes on, so your brand shows up the same way on the Village floor on Saturday morning as in a suite on Tuesday night, with nobody having to relearn the brief.
Family-Ready Engagement for Baseball's Most Inclusive Event
The All-Star crowd is younger and more family-heavy than any other big baseball event, with first-time fans and three generations of one family often in the same line. Every Eleven8 team member at All-Star Week is chosen and briefed for that: patient, upbeat and appropriate, as comfortable helping a nine-year-old through a batting challenge as looking after a client in a suite that evening. Parents notice that care, and so do the clients watching from above.
Fully Insured & Ready for the Operational Scope of All-Star Week
Our teams are fully insured and ready for the practical side of a multi-day summer event: convention-hall load-ins and overnight resets, outdoor fan zones in July heat and sudden storms, a busy Derby night and a packed game night back to back, and a week of long days in one host city. We plan staffing, breaks, hydration and transport home for all of it, before the week begins.
Home Run Derby Night — A Staffing Environment Unlike Any Other MLB Event
Derby night is its own event: a prime-time contest with a pregame fan experience that runs longer than a normal game's, a younger, louder crowd and an atmosphere closer to a concert than a ballgame. Our Derby teams are briefed for exactly that, with energy for the long pregame window, quick interactions once every swing pulls attention back to the field, and the stamina to finish the night as strongly as they started it, long after the last swing of the final round.
Present Across the Entire All-Star Week Arc — From the Village's Opening Through the Final Out
All-Star Week asks for five or more days of consistent work across different venues and crowds. Across the whole week your account manager and on-site supervisors stay with your program, adjusting coverage between the Village, the Derby and the game, updating guest lists as plans change, and keeping your standards the same from the first family through the Village doors to the final out on Tuesday night.
Our All-Star Week teams bring real baseball enthusiasm and the flexibility to move between the Village floor, the Derby crowd and a Tuesday night at the ballpark, treating each as its own chance to give fans a moment they keep long after the summer ends. The host city and dates are set well in advance, so now and lock in the strongest team before the calendar fills.
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We were really happy with the team everyone was incredibly helpful and nice to work with. Thank you for selecting such professional people for our event!
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