Ohioans chronicle minor league season on road trip The journalists toured the stadium, recorded hours of conversation with staff members, took video from the dugout and photos from the stands before settling in for the July 24 game, their 90th this season. When their tour ends at the Toledo Mud Hens game on Labor Day, the LaWells will have traveled 26,000 miles and chronicled their stories of 119 ballparks on "A Minor League Season," the website that the 28-year-olds launched after leaving their jobs and their Lakewood home. Back in Matt LaWell's Ohio University dorm room, the tour was more of a travel dream than a career move for the lifelong Cleveland Indians fan. Carolyn, also an OU graduate, journalist and Indians fan, agreed to quit her job at a landscaping trade magazine, store their stuff and join him on the tour, which began in Jacksonville, Fla. — The Clippers' media director and historian, Joe Santry, who regaled the LaWells with stories of his previous job milking cows and of the city's role in the development of ballpark hot dogs and umpire hand signals
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