AS FANS STREAM through the Hard Rock Café at Yankee Stadium and into the ballpark's Great Hall -- the billion-dollar stadium's palatial foyer -- a text arrived from Joey Mellows. He was hungry.
"I haven't had anything since lunch," Mellows wrote. "Yesterday."
Mustachioed and understated, Mellows had a thin frame and thick British accent. He came from Portsmouth, England, where baseball was nothing more than a sport for Yanks. Mellows now sat among them, scoring games and setting his fantasy team, subsisting on hot dogs and light beer.
Mellows, known as "The Baseball Brit," has been on the road for 99 days.