Happy Ending: Grandpa Returns to Fenway After Internet Pitches In

Allan Munroe has had a tough few years. The 87-year-old grandpa and father of four has fought heart disease and the early stages of dementia. He broke his hip and spent months in a rehab center. But, worst of all, he spent countless hours seated in a wooden chair next to the bed where his wife of more than sixty years lay slowly losing her four-year battle with lung cancer

Norma Munroe died in May, ending months of the same scene: Allan, seated beside her, his hand holding hers and his eyes glued to the screen where his beloved Boston Red Sox played on TV. As Norma's disease finished its ugly course, the familiar procession of balls and strikes, outs and base hits, gave Allan "an escape from a reality that hasn't always been so great," his granddaughter Angela McKinnon told Mashable in August Read more...