About
Welcome to CrawdadsBlog.com! This website is one of my pet projects. I have been blogging Hickory Crawdads baseball for the last two seasons, and I really enjoy every minute of it. I’m not a writer by trade. I’m a photographer. I have been shooting sports photography for the local newspaper for the last three years. In 2006, I picked up some work from Minor League Baseball, so I spend a lot of time in L.P. Frans Stadium making photos of the Hickory Crawdads and the visiting teams in the South Atlantic League.
Blogging is some sort of odd natural extension of photography. I love to write something to go along with the photos I make. This blog is an outlet for that, and I hope you enjoy what I have to say occasionally.
This site is not affiliated with the Hickory Crawdads organization or the Pittsburgh Pirates. I’m totally independent of both organizations, and I operate this blog as a sports photographer and a baseball fan. Some of the things I write here will be praise and others will be criticisms. I’m not biased by much, and you will see that soon enough! When someone in Hickory has a bad day, I’m likely to discuss it here. By the same token, when someone has an outstanding performance, I’m just as likely to talk about that too!
I hope you enjoy your visit to CrawdadsBlog.com!
John M. Setzler, Jr.
(the guy with the camera)
7/5/2007