{"id":421707,"date":"2026-08-31T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:50:26","slug":"beloved-dallas-baseball-coach-seriously-hurt-in-dirt-bike-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421707\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Dallas baseball coach seriously hurt in dirt bike crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/chris_upton_gofundme1.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Chris Upton. Courtesy of GoFundMe <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS, Ga. &#8211; A beloved baseball coach from Dallas is hospitalized with serious injuries following a dirt bike accident over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WAGA\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Chris Upton was injured Saturday and suffered a brain bleed along with multiple broken bones. He remains in the intensive care unit as he receives treatment for his injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Upton is well known in the Dallas community through his work as a baseball coach. Family members and friends are rallying around him as he begins what could be a lengthy recovery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-chris-uptons-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been established to help Upton and his family with mounting medical bills and living expenses while he is unable to work.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/us\/ga\/paulding-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paulding County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Chris Upton. Courtesy of GoFundMe DALLAS, Ga. &#8211; A beloved baseball coach from Dallas is hospitalized with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2658,223,46720,393],"class_list":["post-421707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-ga","tag-news","tag-paulding-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421707","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=421707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}