{"id":115653,"date":"2026-02-17T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115653\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:23:06","slug":"devonta-smiths-celebrity-softball-game-returning-to-allentown-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115653\/","title":{"rendered":"DeVonta Smith\u2019s celebrity softball game returning to Allentown in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Eagles wide receiver <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/devonta-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeVonta Smith<\/a> will be hosting his fifth celebrity softball game in Allentown on May 2, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs announced Monday. The event will take place at Coca-Cola Park, the IronPigs\u2019 home stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Smith had another successful campaign for the Eagles in 2025, recording 1,008 receiving yards and four touchdowns on 77 receptions. It was the third time Smith has topped 1,000 yards in a season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The softball game will feature some of Smith\u2019s teammates, friends, and other NFL players. A home run derby will take place at 1:30 p.m. followed by the celebrity softball game at 3 p.m.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Smith\u2019s game has provided fireworks for fans in the past. Running back <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/saquon-barkley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saquon Barkley<\/a>, defensive end <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/brandon-graham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Graham<\/a>, tight end <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/dallas-goedert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Goedert<\/a>, and cornerbacks <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/darius-slay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Slay<\/a> and <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/cooper-dejean\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper DeJean<\/a> participated last year, along with former Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens. DeJean earned last year\u2019s game MVP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons built his own team in 2022 to face Smith\u2019s team. That year, Smith had wide receiver <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/aj-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Brown<\/a> on his team. Brown beat Parsons in the home run derby, then hit the walk-off home run to beat Team Parsons, which featured Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jaylen Waddle and former Eagles running back Boston Scott. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Participants for this year\u2019s game will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith will be hosting his fifth celebrity softball game in Allentown on May 2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,54978],"class_list":["post-115653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-devonta-smith-softball-game-allentown-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}