Joey Mellows, a 34 year-old from Portsmouth, England, is spending his life savings to see baseball all across the United States.
Joey Mellows, the"Baseball Brit," visits ESPN during a swing through New England. By Jacob Bogage Jacob Bogage National sports writer and blogger Email Bio Follow April 14 at 6:00 AM Joey Mellows likes to say his journey to 162 major league, minor league and independent league baseball games is an “authentic fan experience.” But most fans haven’t spent their life savings to traverse the United States while watching its national pastime.
For some reason or other, the whole combination of numbers and stats and the action on the field and the atmosphere and everything, I just fell in love with baseball. So I went back the next night to Seoul and started rooting for my local team, the LG Twins. It gives me the experience of the grind these players go through, the wives and their kids. It’s life on the road, this kind of transient lifestyle that professional baseball players have. Maybe at the end of the journey I’ll write a book or something if there’s interest. I’m recording my thoughts each day about what is happening, the highs and the lows of life on the road and the difficulty when you wake up in the morning and not knowing where you’re going to sleep the next night.
I just want to enjoy life and have a bit of time out to reflect on what I want to be for the next 40 years of my life, so that’s what I’m doing. And if people think it’s self indulgent, I just say, it’s my money, I’ve worked really hard for it, I’m not getting any help from anyone. No one is sponsoring me or doing anything like that. Let me choose to spend it how I will.I’ve only been in the USA for a week and a half or two weeks now, so I’ve got all this traveling in front of me.
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