About Quentin Johnson

Quentin Johnson was born in New Jersey in the 1950s. He was there just long enough to become a fan of the Yankees, especially Mickey Mantle. He spent his Little League years in San Diego before relocating again, this time to Michigan. His first visit to a major league ballpark was a Tiger Stadium doubleheader on July 23, 1967, verses the Yankees. Fortunately, Quentin had recently caught the photography bug and bought the popular Polaroid Swinger camera with his paper route money. He managed to sneak down close enough to capture a photo of his hero, “The Mick” doing his classic on-deck circle kneel. 

In 1970, Quentin was the catcher for the Birmingham Colt League All-Star team, dubbed by the heavily favored Hamtramck squad as the “Birmingham Sissies.” The Sissies did not back down, eliminating Hamtramck at Hamtramck Stadium. Birmingham advanced and won the Michigan state championship.

A self-proclaimed, “baseball fan with a camera,” Quentin Emery Johnson combined his love of the game and big league ballparks with his love for photography. Traveling over 170,000 miles (nearly seven orbits around the earth!), to 299 games, dozens of ballpark tours in 390 days of travel to photograph 32 Major League ballparks used during the 2010s.