2010 Scavenger Hunt

Once again, we’ve reached the end of another baseball season. (Much sooner for the Sox than I would have preferred.) It’s more than three months before we can even talk about Spring Training. Hopefully the Sox will have a productive hot stove season, but that will be many more rumors than facts. How else can we all spend our free time time? Once again, I have the answer. I present the Third Annual Section 36 Scavenger Hunt! I liked the way using pictures worked last year, so I’m going to make that the standard method. Here’s how it will work. Below, you’ll find a list of 36 items. When you find an item, take a picture of it and send it along to me in an e-mail. Whoever sends me pictures of the most items wins. Pretty simple, eh? We’ll make the end of the hunt be 12:36 PM eastern time on February 9, 2011. This both gives enough time to find the stuff, and fills the time right up to pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training. Sound like fun? What do you win if you find the most items? Worldwide fame and admiration! I will post the winner’s name (and picture if one is provided) on this very site and hail them as the 2010 Scavenger Hunt Champion! I’m sure that Jere from RI has found his worldwide fame to be quite an honor this past year. I’m also offering an official Section 36 scorebook to the winner. This book will use my custom scoresheet, and will be bound with enough sheets to score 20 games. Not too bad, eh? OK. I'll sweeten it even more. The winner will recieve 200 cards of their favorite MLB team! Ready to get started? Here is this year’s list of items to get pictures of:

1. Bobblehead of Red Sox player

2. Dustin Pedroia replica jersey

3. Red Sox bat

4. Poster featuring Red Sox player

5. Red Sox/Coca-Cola item

6. Homemade “Section 36” t-shirt

7. Red Sox picture frame

8. Red Sox lamp

9. Gate “B” sign at Fenway Park

10. Red Sox mousepad

11. Red Sox player

12. Red Sox wall clock

13. Used official Section 36 scorecard

14. Red Sox blanket

15. Hallmark Ornament of Red Sox player

16. Wine bottle featuring Red Sox player

17. Clay Buchholz t-shirt

18. Red Sox foam finger

19. Red Sox keychain

20. Red Sox underwear

21. Red Sox Monopoly token

22. Official program from 2004 World Series

23. Mike Cameron baseball card

24. Red Sox lanyard

25. Red Sox shot glass

26. Ticket stub from Section 36

27. Red Sox beach ball

28. Autograph of member of 2007 World Series roster

29. Ticket to ALCS game played by the Red Sox

30. Red Sox pin

31. Starting Line-Up brand figurine of Red Sox player

32. Red Sox chair

33. Plush Wally the Green Monster

34. Fenway Park dirt

35. Female Red Sox fan

36. Male Red Sox fan

A quick clarification. Unless it says otherwise, “Red Sox Player” refers to anyone who ever played for the Sox in a regular season game. That counts even if the player isn’t depicted as a Red Sox player in the picture. So, Jim would be able to use anything from his Phillies Room depicting players like Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez, even if they’re in their Phillies garb.

Now, since I want this to be a scavenger hunt, and not a google search, I’ll need a way to make sure you actually find these items yourself. So, in order to qualify any picture will need to have either one of these two things in it.

1. You. This might be the easiest way. If you’re in the picture, I can be pretty sure you actually found the item. This has one advantage in that it doesn’t have to be a new picture. If you went to Fenway last summer and took a picture in front of Gate B, that would work. Or,
2. The address of this blog, “www.section-36.blogspot.com” , written somewhere in the picture. Either write it out on a piece of paper, on a sidewalk with chalk, on someone’s leg, whatever. (Just don’t vandalize anything). It has to be something in the picture, obviously, and not digitally added.

That make sense? So, send in your pictures to me, section36 at gmail dot com (I bet you know which parts to replace with symbols) It would be nice if you told me which items you thought were in each picture. If there’s a tie between people who have the same number of found items, the first tiebreaker will be the person who did it with the fewest number of pictures. If you get a picture of a Female Red Sox fan, wearing a Red Sox lanyard over a Clay Buchholz t-shirt while holding a plush Wally the Green Monster, it would be 4 items in one picture. That’s a great start, although I’m sure you can do better. Last year, Jere had over 20 items in a single photo! (In case you were wondering, the other tiebreaker will just be my judgment as to which pictures I like the best.)

As I’m sure you can imagine, if you send me a picture, you’re stating that you have the rights to send me the picture. You’re also telling me that I can use the picture on my blog in just about any way I see fit.

I think that covers everything! It’s now up to you to start sending me your pictures. I’ll keep reminding you as the months go by.

Good Luck!