{"id":91562,"date":"2025-12-17T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91562\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:00:13","slug":"calallen-baseball-collects-toys-to-donate-for-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91562\/","title":{"rendered":"Calallen baseball collects toys to donate for holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The defending UIL 4A-DI State Champion Calallen baseball team spread holiday cheer as members of the community were invited to help the Wildcats with their season of giving. The team collected lots of toys on Tuesday that they\u2019ll deliver to Driscoll Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extra special to see this because my sister was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer. I know what it&#8217;s like and I&#8217;ve been around all of those kids that aren&#8217;t able to spend Christmas with their families,&#8221; said Calallen senior pitcher and outfielder Drayton Mitchell. &#8220;It&#8217;s a really special gift that we have to give.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765990812_896_\" alt=\"Toys collected by Calallen baseball\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love giving back to the community,&#8221; said Calallen sophomore pitcher Cedric Smith. &#8220;You know it&#8217;s always good to put a smile on kids faces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765990813_442_\" alt=\"Calallen's Cedric Smith dressed as Santa Claus\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>When the Calallen Wildcats were asked what they wanted for Christmas, the answer was simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother State Championship,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The defending UIL 4A-DI State Champion Calallen baseball team spread holiday cheer as members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3804,1816,6440,7748,155,157,156,11349,13316,2786,1972,6658,43073],"class_list":{"0":"post-91562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-3804","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-calallen","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-corpus-christi","13":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","14":"tag-corpus-christi-news","15":"tag-donation","16":"tag-driscoll-childrens-hospital","17":"tag-holiday","18":"tag-holidays","19":"tag-kris-6","20":"tag-wildcat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91562","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=91562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}