(Good Morning America/Yahoo News) – A Missouri teen has made a 13-year-old boy’s dream come true by giving him tickets to the the Kansas City Royals’ opening day baseball game.
Lorenzo Harrison, 17, received two of the coveted tickets to opening day as a gift from his friend’s parents, but he was unable to attend.
“I thought about selling them or asking a friend to go,” Harrison of Blue Springs, Missouri told ABC News. “But I said, ‘I want to do something different, something that’s never been done before.'”
Harrison posted to the official Kansas City Facebook page asking people to “like” and comment on the post with reasons they would like to have the pair of tickets, worth an estimated $900.
Harrison said he received thousands of messages, but one stood out among the rest.
“I chose them because of their story,” he said. “It was a mother [who] found out her son had cancer at the age of 6. I did a [direct message] and sent her the information and said, ‘Congrats, I came to the decision to choose you and I will post it on the page.'”