Kristen Saroyan—improbable Baseball Fan

• Publication year: 2024
• Citation: Vol. 50 No. 1

Kristen Saroyan—Improbable Baseball Fan Vol. 50 No. 1 Pg. 8 Vermont Bar Journal March 2024

PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS Kristen Saroyan � Improbable Baseball Fan

Interview by Kim Velk, Esq.

KSV: Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed, Kristin. As you know, for this feature, we talk to attorneys who have interests and passions outside of the practice of law which help keep them balanced, bring them joy, widen their horizons, etc.

I've known you for a year or two now as part of the group of incubator attorneys, and I got a little frisson when you mentioned that you are a big baseball fan. It was just unexpected, given what I know about your professional interests in representing artists and creative people, and your generally scholarly and demure demeanor (if you'll permit that observation). But it's true, isn't it, that baseball occupies a big part of your time outside of work?

KS: Thanks for thinking of me for this column, Kim. It's fun to talk with you outside the incubator group. Yes, baseball consumes an enormous amount of my free time, more than I ever could have imagined.

KSV: And you love it?

KS: To my great surprise, I do.

KSV: We're going to talk more about how you got into it, as the parent of two young baseball players, but for starters, tell me, were you surprised to find that you there was a baseball fan in you waiting to emerge? Were you into sports as a kid?

KS: I was not a sports fan growing up. In fact, it wasn't until after college that someone explained to me that the Giants are a baseball team as well as a football team.

KSV: OK, before we get into the baseball details can you give a little summary of your background. Where did you grow up?

KS: I'm from Loudonville, New York, just outside of Albany.

KSV: And what about your education?

KS: I moved to NYC for college and graduate school. I studied art history with a focus on color theory.

KSV: So, you were set up then for a career in the arts in New York, and I know you pursued that. Can you tell me a little about your work in the New York art world?

KS: Sure. I started out as an intern at an auction house. Then I managed estate property—including an enormous collection of books housed in a Bronx warehouse—at a downtown law firm. After that I worked at a commercial art gallery in the Fuller Build

ing on Madison Avenue. I then worked in the curatorial field at a non-profit organization and later at the Hunter College Art Galleries. The...