Good Newsz Follow Up: 87 year old Allan Munroe makes his final trip to Fenway Park to see his beloved Red Sox play thanks to the help of his granddaughter Angela McKinnon and the power of social media...

Red Sox Nation takes care of its own, rallying through social media to make sure an 87-year-old Florida grandfather was granted his wish to see the Olde Towne Team one more time this afternoon.

Crowd funding a trip to Fenway Park “seemed kind of weird, but I thought it was worth a try,” said Angela McKinnon, granddaughter of Allan Munroe, a retired Brevard County police officer and devoted Sox fan.

Munroe grew up in Andover but moved away 50 years ago. In May after he lost Norma, his wife of nearly 64 years, the 39-year-old McKinnon made it her mission to send her grandfather back to Boston to take in a game.

McKinnon, her mom, aunts and uncle couldn’t afford to ship him up here on their own, so McKinnon turned to an online fundraising site GoFundMe. In her pitch, McKinnon noted the family had purchased one of the Fenway Park anniversary bricks for her grandfather’s birthday a few years ago. It reads, “Allan Munroe has 2 tru loves, Norma & the Sox.”

For about the first month of the campaign, donations hovered at about $500 — enough to send Munroe and one other family member on a bare-bones trip to the Hub, which was plenty in McKinnon’s eyes. But about two weeks ago, Mike Napoli — @MikeNapoli25 — retweeted McKinnon’s link. So did Kim Ring of Boston public relations firm Ring Communications.

First, an anonymous $1,000 donation came in. “Then, my email started to get flooded with donations,” McKinnon said. “It just didn’t stop.”

McKinnon and her mother, two aunts and an uncle are now here in Boston for today’s game (1:05 p.m. first pitch) against the New York Yankees. The tickets came courtesy of Linda Pizzuti Henry, wife of Red Sox owner John Henry, who tweeted “Amazing family! We have reached out — offered tix and more!” Ernie Boch Jr., president and CEO of Subaru of New England, volunteered to cover travel expenses, and the Westin Waterfront in the Seaport District offered comped rooms.

“I talked to the Red Sox and said ‘Donate anything left (in the GoFundMe account) to the Jimmy Fund.’ It was a good way to give back while Grandpa still gets to go (to Fenway),” McKinnon said.

Though Munroe isn’t much of a technophile, he’s been overwhelmed by the social media storm.

“It’s hard to describe or even explain,” McKinnon said. “He just looked at (my aunt) and said ‘We’re going to Boston? Really? This is really happening?’ It’s surreal.”

Munroe had this to say about his first trip to Fenway Park in a half-century: “The first priority is to get a victory over the Yankees.”