ESPN took a nice look at Topps baseball card photographer Gregg Forwerck and the great work he’s done.
Forwerck has apparently chewed a lot of gum in his lifetime.
“Forwerck is sort of the Annie Leibovitz of sports trading card photographers. By his own estimates, he’s shot more than 10,000 baseball card photos, been to about 100 different minor league ballparks, nearly every major league stadium, and spends close to 100 days a year on the road. I met him just before he drove to the Texas Rangerscamp to do a Topps shoot with outfielder Josh Hamilton and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
“I call this, ‘my prison term in paradise,’” says Forwerck of his annual spring training swing through Arizona.
Forwerck owns more than 100,000 cards. Not one of them features his name. Sportswriters get bylines. Newspaper and magazine photographers get credit lines. Trading card photographers get anonymity.”
He was paid $100 to do his first baseball card photo in 1989 and its been history ever since.
ESPN does a good job looking into the background of Forweck. So definitely check it out!
