Passing through the airport immigration checkpoint on a trip home to the United States from South Korea, Henry Garcia responded truthfully when asked the reason for his travel: He had journeyed thousands of miles to cut a baseball player’s hair.
“The officer was surprised, and laughed at me,” said Garcia, normally the on-call barber at Nationals Park in Washington. “Then he called over another officer and says, ‘This guy goes to Korea to cut hair.’ ”
As one of several barbers catering to a peripatetic clientele of wealthy major leaguers, Garcia goes to great lengths to please his customers.