Holiday Q&A with Shawn Camp
12/24/2005
MLB.com: We understand you have some special plans this Christmas.
Camp: My wife, Heidi, and I plan to go on Christmas Eve morning and visit with children in the oncology unit at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia.
If you can just give them a warm Christmas and give them something they deserve, we want to do that. We just want to brighten up their day a little bit.
MLB.com: Is this something you've done before?
Camp: No, it's something I've never done. My wife, Heidi, has always wanted to do it. I worked this year with Down Syndrome children in a camp that the Royals put on. This winter I'm not playing baseball or anything like that, so we just felt it'd be a good-spirited thing to do for the holidays.
MLB.com: So you have a special feeling for Down Syndrome children?
Camp: Yeah, I do. I don't want to say I feel sorry for them, I just have a special place in my heart for them.
They just need a little direction and help with things. I'm a very patient person when it comes to situations like that. It just makes me feel good to know that I'm giving something back to them. You can just see every year when they have a camp in Kansas City and how much effort they put into it and how much it means to them.
So, hopefully, we can get the same thing out of the children when we go to the hospital and visit with them on Christmas Eve.
MLB.com: And you'll spend Christmas with your family?
Camp: Yeah, we plan to spend Christmas Eve morning at the hospital and spend that evening with our family. We're going to be with my sister and her family and see her kids have Santa.
I've always had a very traditional Christmas -- everybody comes over, you open your presents, you have dinner. This year we want to make it special. My wife said something about going to the hospital, and it's the sort of family tradition that we can have for years to come.
MLB.com: Do you have any special memories about Christmas as a kid?
Camp: I don't know if I want to say this or not. One of the memories I have is when my mom caught me opening up the presents. I unwrapped one of the presents and I mistakenly wrapped it back up with the wrong paper, and so she caught me.
MLB.com: You're a newlywed and this will be your first Christmas together. Can we reveal on MLB.com what you're getting Heidi?
Camp: No, we can't do that. But I can tell you. Hopefully, it'll be a surprise. She's expecting something, but she's not going to be getting that.
Source: http://royals.mlb.com/
MLB.com: We understand you have some special plans this Christmas.
Camp: My wife, Heidi, and I plan to go on Christmas Eve morning and visit with children in the oncology unit at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia.
If you can just give them a warm Christmas and give them something they deserve, we want to do that. We just want to brighten up their day a little bit.
MLB.com: Is this something you've done before?
Camp: No, it's something I've never done. My wife, Heidi, has always wanted to do it. I worked this year with Down Syndrome children in a camp that the Royals put on. This winter I'm not playing baseball or anything like that, so we just felt it'd be a good-spirited thing to do for the holidays.
MLB.com: So you have a special feeling for Down Syndrome children?
Camp: Yeah, I do. I don't want to say I feel sorry for them, I just have a special place in my heart for them.
They just need a little direction and help with things. I'm a very patient person when it comes to situations like that. It just makes me feel good to know that I'm giving something back to them. You can just see every year when they have a camp in Kansas City and how much effort they put into it and how much it means to them.
So, hopefully, we can get the same thing out of the children when we go to the hospital and visit with them on Christmas Eve.
MLB.com: And you'll spend Christmas with your family?
Camp: Yeah, we plan to spend Christmas Eve morning at the hospital and spend that evening with our family. We're going to be with my sister and her family and see her kids have Santa.
I've always had a very traditional Christmas -- everybody comes over, you open your presents, you have dinner. This year we want to make it special. My wife said something about going to the hospital, and it's the sort of family tradition that we can have for years to come.
MLB.com: Do you have any special memories about Christmas as a kid?
Camp: I don't know if I want to say this or not. One of the memories I have is when my mom caught me opening up the presents. I unwrapped one of the presents and I mistakenly wrapped it back up with the wrong paper, and so she caught me.
MLB.com: You're a newlywed and this will be your first Christmas together. Can we reveal on MLB.com what you're getting Heidi?
Camp: No, we can't do that. But I can tell you. Hopefully, it'll be a surprise. She's expecting something, but she's not going to be getting that.
Source: http://royals.mlb.com/
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