{"id":35120,"date":"2026-04-24T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=35120"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:15:10","slug":"morgan-wallen-plans-1-2-million-donation-to-upgrade-former-high-schools-baseball-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/04\/morgan-wallen-plans-1-2-million-donation-to-upgrade-former-high-schools-baseball-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Plans $1.2 Million Donation To Upgrade Former High School\u2019s Baseball Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Morgan Wallen<\/strong>\u00a0intends to contribute $1.2 million for improvements at Gibbs High School&#8217;s baseball facility in Corryton, Tennessee, where he was a student over ten years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knox County Commission must approve the funding, which could create a &#8220;versatile, state-of-the-art multi-use athletic field,&#8221; according to commission records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallen played on Gibbs High School&#8217;s 2010 national championship baseball team and graduated in 2011. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility received the designation Morgan Wallen Field in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School officials also plan to construct a softball training facility on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32-year-old singer will make the contribution through his foundation, which supports youth sports and music initiatives while assisting communities during emergencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morganwallenfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">His foundation collects three dollars from each concert ticket sold.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morgan Wallen Foundation to give $1.2 million to upgrade Gibbs High baseball field\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7WTqxx8qqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u00a0intends to contribute $1.2 million for improvements at Gibbs High School&#8217;s baseball facility in Corryton, Tennessee, where he was a student over ten years ago. The Knox County Commission must approve the funding, which could create a &#8220;versatile, state-of-the-art multi-use athletic field,&#8221; according to commission records. Wallen played on Gibbs High School&#8217;s 2010 national","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2815,6139,171,810],"class_list":["post-35120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-baseball","tag-gibbs-high-school","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-tennessee"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 15:51:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/04\/morgan-wallen-plans-1-2-million-donation-to-upgrade-former-high-schools-baseball-field\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35136,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions\/35136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}