The Savannah Bananas are an exhibition barnstorming baseball team based in Savannah, Georgia. They play a variation of baseball known as Banana Ball, which emphasizes showmanship, fan participation, and quick-paced games. The players engage in dance routines, comedic sketches, and other performances between, and often during, innings. They are often compared to the Harlem Globetrotters, though Savannah Bananas games are unscripted and competitive. There are four teams of players, many of whom are former minor league and college baseball players, with former MLB athletes as occasional special guest players.
The team was founded in 2016 with Grayson Stadium as its home ballpark. Until 2022, the Bananas competed as a collegiate summer baseball team in the Coastal Plain League's (CPL) West division,[3] where they won three Petitt Cup championships (2016, 2021, and 2022). In 2018, they began playing exhibition games outside of the CPL season under the Banana Ball format. In 2023, the team moved entirely to exhibition games against their partner touring teams, the Party Animals, the Firefighters, and the Texas Tailgaters.
