Banana Balls baseball

[GON]

Little lighten up Saturday night question.

Are the players on Banana Balls baseball having a ton of fun playing baseball and making fans laugh and be happy, or is this just where players go that didn't make it to the big leagues? I'd love to take my grandsons to one of these games, or BITOGs favorite adopted nephew (@AutoMechanic). I am aware some retired very successful MLB players have partaken in Banana Balls baseball.

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[AutoMechanic]

Honestly I’ve always wanted to go to one as well haha. I don’t know too much about the league itself though.

 

[daves87rs]

Sounds like a good time…

 

[Kira]

I made banana bread last night...what a coincidence!

 

[snarl]

https://thesavannahbananas.com/about_us/

 

[GON]

https://thesavannahbananas.com/about_us/

@snarl , thanks very much for posting the link to the page.

Outstanding read on that page- awesome read for a Sunday morning!

Love what this team is doing the more I learn about the Banana Balls......

A little snippet from the main page of the website:

But the name was not liked or appreciated by most people in Savannah. We heard comments like whoever came up with the team should be fired. The owner should be thrown out of town. “You’ll never sell a ticket”. We even did a mean tweet video a year later to share some of the “love” we received.

But even with mixed reviews we were finally on the map and people knew who we were.

With all the attention, we were able to sell out Opening Night. Our fans were met with a completely unique experience featuring all-inclusive food, our senior citizen dance team, the first Banana Baby, and dancing players.

Since the first season, we’ve sold out every single game – over 200 and counting

 

[Pablo]

I watch the local non affiliate league games and follow pro baseball to some extent but I had never heard of this. Absolutely a hoot!! Good stuff and sometimes what baseball and sports should be about - FUN!

 

[SC Maintenance]

The Savannah Banana's play in historic Grayson Stadium - circa 1908 I think. There was a wooden stadium there before that burned down. I am a sucker for old stadiums, hot dogs, and peanuts, so I took my family there years ago before the Banana's played there - it was a regular AA team back then. Sand Gnats I think?

I looked to go again a couple years ago and the tickets were sold out. So there obviously doing something right.

 

[Pablo]

Minor league baseball and under is great

We have the Bellingham Bells

 

[97prizm]

Check out the documentary. This guy worked for the Savannah Bananas and from what I remember the team was more or less broke. He wanted to take it over. Then convinced his girlfriend (then proposed to her at a game) to sell everything and move into the office to live. There's risky, then crazy, then off your rocker. The team went from a dozen fans on a good day to being sold out in a year or so. It reminds me of the movie UHF with Weird Al Yankovic where he and his roommate take over his uncles failing uhf tv station.
Savannah Bananas documentary

 

[SC Maintenance]

Check out the documentary. This guy worked for the Savannah Bananas and from what I remember the team was more or less broke. He wanted to take it over. Then convinced his girlfriend (then proposed to her at a game) to sell everything and move into the office to live. There's risky, then crazy, then off your rocker. The team went from a dozen fans on a good day to being sold out in a year or so. It reminds me of the movie UHF with Weird Al Yankovic where he and his roommate take over his uncles failing uhf tv station.
Savannah Bananas documentary

UHF all came true - in the era of "reality television"