The wildest experiment in sports comes to New York.
Savannah Bananas pitchers Mat Wolf and Dakota Albritton dance in the fourth inning of a game against the Savannah Party Animals at Scottsdale Stadium.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 pitched on a competitive travel team, then for his high school, and then for Division I Wofford College.
After giving up coaching in 2007, Cole worked in the front office of the Gastonia Grizzlies, a collegiate summer team, then purchased the franchise in 2014. In Gastonia, he understood that fans attending a game at that level of the sport needed to be entertained beyond the action on the field. He staged silly theme nights like A Salute to Underwear and encouraged fans to knock him into a dunk tank.
There are pre-game parades and post-game sing-alongs and mid-game dance routines from the Banana Nanas . Cole himself emcees the games, firing up the crowd while dressed in his trademark yellow suit. Or perhaps it’s better to call him the Bananas’ ringmaster: He cites P.T. Barnum as one of his heroes, along with Walt Disney and Hall of Fame baseball owner Bill Veeck.
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