SAN DIEGO — It’s one of the wackiest sports you will ever see. Trick plays, choreographed dances and baseball like you’ve never seen it before. It’s called Banana Ball and it was popularized by the ...

From the start, the Savannah Bananas were not your ordinary collegiate summer baseball team. Whether it was their eccentric branding, humorous in-game gimmicks or gregarious, yellow-tuxedo-wearing ...

As a boy growing up in Scituate, Massachusetts, Jesse Cole lived and breathed baseball. He dreamed of one day playing for the Red Sox, and by the age of 10, he was hitting homers over the fence. He ...

To Jesse Cole, the Disneyland parade for the Savannah Bananas was more than a common honor for athletes at the peak of their game. The founder of this wild spin on baseball and one of sport’s hottest ...

Columbus East graduate Sam Claycamp takes off for first base after hitting a pitch for the Party Animals against the Savannah Bananas. Photo courtesy of Savannah Bananas After Sam Claycamp finished ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Banana Ball is officially returning to western Washington in 2026, but this time, the three-game series in Tacoma will not feature the popular Savannah Bananas. From May 22-24, the ...

Bret Helton had no plans to give up his big-league dreams — until the Bananas called. Helton, a 2013 Cheyenne Mountain graduate, spent a few years pitching in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ organization ...

The Savannah Banana All-Stars ultimately came out with a win over Auburn during an extra-inning showdown, but it was the ...