For more than two decades, Dan Linnenberg and Ginny Skinner-Linnenberg have visited 35 states and three Canadian provinces to watch minor-league baseball games in 173 ballparks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just our hobby, it\u2019s our passion,\u201d says Dan, an assistant professor in counseling and human development at the University of Rochester\u2019s Warner Graduate School of Education.<\/p>\n
Dan is also an Episcopal minister and his wife, Ginny, is a professor of English at nearby Nazareth College. They both grew up in Cincinnati, met at Bowling Green University, and have been married 41 years.<\/p>\n
Through their journeys, they\u2019ve seen LumberKings, JetHawks, Muckdogs, Sand Gnats, and Lugnuts. They\u2019ve visited a coondogs cemetery in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and a tattoo museum in Baltimore. And they\u2019ve witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly in America\u2014from Civil War battlefields and famous geographic sites to small towns struggling to stay alive in the back roads of the Deep South.<\/p>\n