'I started taking over the community development side a little bit, being active in the community and working with schools and kids,' Gorrasi says. It took Gorrasi time to find his true role in the game-the young executive figured out he was far better in community outreach and interacting with the public, rather than media relations-and at that point, he hit his stride. My family was 3,000 miles away, my best friends were back there, and I started to ask myself, ‘do I really want to move every two years? Is that really what I want to do?'' 'I had moved to Asheville, and then to Quad Cities, and then to Modesto. 'There was a time early in my tenure here where I wasn't sure if this is what I wanted to do,' the New York native admits. It took him through some tough times early in his career. Gorrasi embraced that lifestyle when he was young, though, even going so far as rising to be the Nuts' general manager by 2004 when he was just 26 years old. Long hours, lots of competition, generally low pay as young men and women work their way up the ranks, and bizarre tasks in small towns far from home leave front office members in just as precarious of an existence as the players they work alongside. While those working full-time in the front office make a little more money than the players do, minor league baseball is a grind, whether on the field or behind the scenes. I took that experience and knew this is what I wanted to do.' But at the same time, I was going to the ballpark every day, and it was fun. 'Maybe some of my buddies were getting good jobs out of college, working 40 hours a week and taking summer vacations,' he adds, laughing, 'but you know, summer is our big time, and I'm working weekends and nights. There's a lot of hours working in sports, there's a lot of competition, and with competition typically means there's not a lot of money, so you've got to make sacrifices, and I was willing to do that.' 'I worked hard, I listened, I tried to learn as much as I could. 'I loved it,' he says, smiling as he reminisces of his early days in minor league front offices. Always interested in sports generally, Gorrasi found his fit in baseball at that point, and he never looked back. 'Like probably everyone that works in sports, you hope at one point that you'll be on the other side playing, but some of us learn quicker than others that won't happen, so you change paths.'Ĭoincidentally for the Rockies, an internship rotation during his college days sent a young Gorrasi to Low-A Asheville's McCormick Field, where he spent a summer working within every different department of the Tourists' front office. 'I think I just followed what I loved,' he adds. I never changed my major there, and then it's been what, 18 or so years since I graduated, and I'm still in the industry.' 'I went to James Madison University in Virginia, I was a sports management major. 'I'm that rare person that declared my major before I stepped foot in college,' Gorrasi says of his long love for the game's business side. Today, he runs all of the club's day-to-day activities as the Executive Vice President of HWS Baseball, the affilate's ownership group, and it's been-and continues to be-the job of his dreams. When Mike Gorrasi first took a public relations job in the Modesto Nuts' front office back in November of 2000, he probably never thought that 16 years later, he'd still be in town. (You can also check out our list of every Apple store in the world.Modesto, Calif. We've also taken care to mention if a store is temporarily closed for renovations.Ĭheck out the table of contents below to jump to any particular US state, or simply scroll down to see every single Apple store in the US. We'll be updating this list over time, as new stores open and old stores close down.

Apple currently has 271 US stores in operation: Notably, nine states (and Washington D.C.) only have one Apple store, and six states have no Apple stores at all (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.) California, on the other hand, has 53 Apple stores in its state alone. To understand Apple's retail footprint, it really helps to see it for yourself.īelow, we've collected the photos and locations of every single Apple store in the United States. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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