{"id":309498,"date":"2026-05-26T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:17:43","slug":"texas-tailgaters-and-firefighters-players-coming-to-corpus-christi-for-fan-meet-and-greet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309498\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tailgaters and Firefighters players coming to Corpus Christi for fan meet-and-greet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banana Ball fans will have a chance to meet players, take photos and get autographs ahead of Thursday\u2019s game.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Banana Ball fans in Corpus Christi will have a chance to meet players from the Texas Tailgaters and Firefighters ahead of Thursday\u2019s sold-out game at Whataburger Field.<\/p>\n<p>Academy Sports + Outdoors is teaming up with both teams for a special meet-and-greet event where fans can take photos, get autographs and gear up before the big matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place Wednesday, May 27, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Academy Sports + Outdoors located at \u00a0at 5001 South Padre Island Drive in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tailgaters and Firefighters are part of the popular Banana Ball experience known for its fan interaction, entertainment and unique style of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full roster<a href=\"https:\/\/thesavannahbananas.com\/team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banana Ball fans will have a chance to meet players, take photos and get autographs ahead of Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-309498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}