This past April, Joey Mellows, a British national, drove his rental car into a hotel parking garage in downtown Atlanta. He didn’t have a reservation at the hotel, but he needed a place to sleep for the night. Mellows found a dimly lit spot, parked his car and settled into the backseat, hoping that no one had spotted him. It was a risky move, but a necessary one if he wanted to reach his goal of attending 162 baseball games across the globe by year’s end.



Mellows, known on Twitter as the Baseball Brit, has divided his self-funded global tour into two parts—the first of which ends in London for Major League Baseball’s historic Red Sox-Yankees series June 29th-30th. When he returns stateside to continue his tour, he will mark 99 days of traveling to watch baseball. It was a journey that started in Japan and Korea, then reached the U.S. in March. He’d like to watch baseball in Canada, as well, and says that he’ll have to include...