Last month I got called up to the big leagues and was hired to shoot my first portrait for the Wall Street Journal (s/o to Timmy Huynh and Tracy Armstead for the gig). I drove to St. Louis early on a Friday morning to meet former minor league pitcher Garrett Broshuis at the St. Louis University baseball field downtown. Broshuis is a Mizzou grad who played with one of my favorite current MLB players, Ian Kinsler, during his time as a Tiger. The conversation flowed easily as we talked about our memories in Columbia and our qualms with professional sports. It was a great first assignment.
Broshuis has since left the world of baseball and is a now a lawyer, representing minor league players in a suit against Major League Baseball for illegal working conditions. To read more about his story, check out a great article by Ashby Jones on the WSJ website:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/baseball-suit-calls-out-minor-league-pay-1411146392
Here are a couple of photos I made that day:
