With the Kansas City crowd still milling outside, a yellow-clad pep band marches into the parking lot, trumpets and saxophones blaring, players in uniform following close behind. While other teams take batting practice, the Bananas focus on what they call the “H3”: handshakes, high-fives a...
The Savannah Bananasare an exhibition barnstorming baseball team based in Savannah, Georgia. The team was founded in 2016 as a collegiate summer baseball team and had a great deal of success, winning league championships three times. However, after the growth of their alternative "Banana Ba...
The Bananas play their own version of baseball called Banana Ball, a fast-paced, action-packed style of baseball with rules that include no bunting, a two-hour time limit, fans catching foul balls for outs, batters stealing first base, and a one-on-one tiebreaker showdown at the end of...
In conjunction with the Savannah Bananas, the Norfolk Tides today announced the Bananas will play three games at Harbor Park in 2024 from Friday, August 16 through Sunday, August 18. The Bananas are bringing “The Greatest Show in Sports” (ESPN) to one
The Savannah Bananas were created on February 25, 2016. The team left the summer league they were a part of in 2022 to play Banana Ball year-round; a more fast-paced, entertaining, and fun game. The team quickly broke stadium attendance records, selling out 18 of the 25 games. ...
For the third time this year, the MLB Players Alumni Association took on the Savannah Bananas in a friendly matchup between the former Major Leaguers and the internet sensations. After meeting up once at Grayson Stadium on March 11 and then in Tampa at G
Cole said the Bananas and their affiliated teams, the Party Animals and Firefighters, have drawn more than 1 million fans this year. The goal for next year is 2 million. “We're not just building a team, we’re building a sport," Cole said, “It's all about creating the ...
Savannah Bananas' star Jackson Olson is paying it back to the community by honoring Trabuco Canyon Little League.
This past weekend, the Bananas stopped in Houston for over 41,000 fans to see the team's sold-out debut at Houston's Minute Maid Park on Saturday night. This show marked the Bananas' first-ever game in a major league stadium.
Thanks partly to the ESPN Plus documentaryBananaland, the Savannah Bananas were a huge draw wherever they went, and Central New York was no exception. Tickets were in such high demand that obtaining them at face value was nearly impossible, forcing fans to turn to third-party websites like ...