J.C. Biagi
Born and raised in Walla Walla. Played college baseball at Centenary College of Louisiana, then came home intending to coach for a living.
That is not how it went.
Somewhere between managing the Walla Walla Sweets and building the things a ball club needs – the site, the logos, the programs, the signage, the campaigns that put people in seats – the side work turned into the work. Wonderboy opened in 2015.
He also met Katie there. She was running the front office.
Today he handles design and search. Logos, brand systems, print, and the SEO strategy behind every site the shop builds. He is the one reading the search results before a word gets written, and the one who will tell a client a term is not worth chasing.
He is currently writing a book about the West Coast League, which is either a natural extension of all this or evidence that he never really left the ballpark.
The name comes from The Natural. Roy Hobbs carved Wonderboy out of an oak that got hit by lightning, and the bolt has been on the logo ever since.
Katie Biagi
Katie grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho, and came to Walla Walla for Whitman College, which is how a lot of people end up here and how almost nobody plans to stay.
She joined the Walla Walla Sweets in marketing and left as general manager, which meant running a summer collegiate ball club end to end – staff, sponsors, budgets, ticketing, and the hundred things that have to be right before first pitch. J.C. was managing the team. That is where the two of them met.
She came on full time at Wonderboy in 2016 and has run project management, client relationships, and content since. She is the reason work ships on schedule, and she is the person clients actually talk to, which is a different skill from building the thing and arguably the harder one.
Still here
Twelve years and seven children later, they still work together.
Faith, family, work, and the outdoors. In that order.