The Savannah Bananas, a team with a fun approach to baseball that includes singing, dancing and gimmicks, are coming to Camden Yards next year.
The Bananas will play at Camden Yards as part of their 2025 world tour on Aug. 1 and 2, they announced.
The team was founded in 2016 as a collegiate baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, and Orioles starter Cade Povich pitched for them in the 2020 season.
After the 2022 season, the organization folded its collegiate team to play Banana Ball. Think the Harlem Globetrotters, just on a baseball field. Banana Ball has its own rules, including a two-hour time limit, an automatic out if a fan catches a foul ball, no mound visits and the golden batter rule, which allows each team the option once a game to send any hitter in the lineup to bat in any spot.
The game is played with a flair not seen at the major league level. There are dancing umpires, singing pitchers and even players on stilts. The goal of the team is to bring fun back to baseball, and it has grown quite the following. The Bananas played their first game outside Savannah, Georgia, in 2022 and expanded to a world tour in 2023, playing over 80 games.
Now the team is so popular it is selling out major league stadiums. It will play in 20 MLB stadiums — plus one NFL and one Southeastern Conference football stadium — in 2025.
Tickets are available through a lottery system on the Savannah Bananas’ website. The lottery closes Nov. 1, and the drawing will take place two months before the game.
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