Just over the course of this past baseball season, the Savannah Bananas continued to captivate an entire country of fun-lovin’ fans of the game, including a stop at Brockton’s Campanelli Stadium. Well, the groundbreaking ballclub is officially making their way back to the area next summer, fully equipped with their potassium-powered wonderment to tackle a brand new monster of a certain color.
As announced during the team’s bombastic draft-style schedule reveal on Thursday (October 5), the Bananas unveiled their upcoming nationwide slate of “Fan First” baseball gatherings. The reveal was highlighted by a number of Major League Baseball stadiums, including their biggest game yet with a single night under the lights of Fenway Park in Boston on June 9.
While the Fenway game is just one date along the voyage of bringing the gospel of Banana Ball to the masses for another summer, which also includes stops at Major League parks in cities like Cleveland, Houston, Philadelphia, Miami and Washington D.C., the opportunity to play at America’s Most Beloved Ballpark has been a long-standing dream for Bananas owner and Scituate native, Jesse Cole.
“I developed a love of the game early with the Red Sox,” Cole told us in the spring, ahead of the Bananas appearance at Brockton’s Campanelli Stadium. “I was fortunate to be batboy for a game when I was five years old, I got to pitch at Fenway when I was 20 years old, and my dad and I must have gone to a hundred games when there were five dollar bleacher seats back in the day. The game was a very big part of my life, and now to be able to see that we’re getting calls from major league teams, including the Red Sox, about bringing the Bananas to these major league stadiums is something you could never imagine.”
Cole added: “The dream was to always be a professional baseball player, which didn’t happen, but I’m doing something that is much more impactful now, where this is bringing joy to thousands and thousands of people. I wouldn’t trade anything.”
Due to the amount of people looking to catch the magic of a Bananas game, tickets for the upcoming Banana Ball World Tour will be sold through a lottery system, which you can sign up for via the team’s website.
This will be the Greatest Tour of all time. See you in 2024, Banana Nation! 🍌🌎 pic.twitter.com/muli6Vw4Rm
— Savannah Bananas (@TheSavBananas) October 6, 2023