Photo by Frank Hunter
Charlie Montoyo and Sam Stephenson in Bulls dugout, March 29, 2012
Nine games in eight days, the Bull City Summer pilot project, or test run, is complete, capped yesterday by “the most important win of the season,” everyone agreed including manager Charlie Montoyo, Bulls’ radio broadcaster Neil Solondz, and Bull City Summer’s Adam Sobsey. Yesterday also included announcements that Bulls’ outfielder Russ Canzler won MVP of the International League and that the DBAP would host the AAA National Championship game in September 2012. Good news all around.
If/when the Bulls have playoff games this year, there will be new work by Adam and perhaps by photographers Frank Hunter and Leah Sobsey. But I'll be in New York and photographer Kate Joyce returned to Chicago today. The 5-person team that gathered at DBAP for these nine games won't gather again until spring 2012, either at spring training in Florida or, more likely for all of us, here.
A project I began as part of this test run, but won't finish until next year, is a profile of Charlie Montoyo.