The best-case scenario became reality after a San Antonio high school football player lost his class ring nearly 200 miles away from home.
On Sunday, March 29, metal detector hobbyist Mark Gibson posted to the Port Aransas Friends Facebook group that he’d found a Harlan High School class ring along the beach that previous Wednesday. Gibson said he found it while searching Port Aransas — “like I do almost every day all winter long on many beaches all over this area” — for two other lost rings he’d seen on social media.
The Wyoming, Minnesota, native who calls himself the Ring King said he’s been wintering in Port A — recently dubbed the “best beach in Texas” — for 12 years. According to him. Lost rings are hard to reunite with their owners. He would know, as his post says, he found his 750th just a day after locating the Harlan class ring. However, class rings can be the exception. This one had the name of the school, a first name and the player’s jersey number, making it easy to call the school…