Karen Haun Johnson, 35, will never forget the day her friend called her, offering an extra ticket to the Oakland Athletics Opening Day game just hours before it started. That day — April 11, 2010 — Karen met her husband.
Vanessa Peterson and her brother, Jeoffrey Orman, had planned a group outing with 10-15 friends to celebrate Opening Day at the Oakland Coliseum. Last minute, two of the ticket holders bailed.
Peterson called up Johnson and offered her one of the tickets while Orman called his friend from high school, Mike Johnson, 35, to take the other one.