José Luis Villegas is a freelance photojournalist based in Sacramento, California, where he does editorial and commercial work. He has coauthored three books on Latino baseball. His work appears in the Ken Burns documentary The 10th Inning and in the upcoming ¡Pleibol! exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Villegas’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston; the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York; and at the Oakland Museum of California. Villegas works as a medical photographer at Shriners Hospital in Sacramento.