Will the Savannah Bananas play a game at Fenway Park?
Exclusive interview with Savannah Bananas player Kyle Luigs
The Savannah Bananas have taken the baseball world by storm over the last couple of years. The entertaining, always dancing, kilt wearing team is constantly doing something to keep their fans interested in the game and experience.
As the Bananas continue to explode in popularity, people will want to see them live and in person. Tickets are always sold out to everyone of their games at their home park Grayson Stadium. They even sell out their shows when they take their on the road for the World Tour.
Next year the Savannah Bananas are planning on a 25 city tour which will showcase Banana Ball to more fans. Could the Bananas make a stop in Boston and play at Fenway Park?
If Bananas owner Jesse Cole had his way, he would love to see that happen. Cole is Massachusetts native who brought the Fans First environment to Bananas baseball. He hopes he can take this nationwide and his goal within five years is to sell out Fenway Park.
In a recent appearance on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumble, Cole talked about how he’s trying to revolutionize the game of baseball.
“Baseball traditionalists hate what we’re doing, are you kidding me,” said Cole to Mary Carillo. “Baseball is supposed to be played a certain way. And so we will always get criticized.”
Despite the criticism, the performance and the game on the field is always entertaining. With 2.7 million followers on TikTok alone, Cole and the Bananas will have no problem getting fans into Major League Baseball ballparks.
But back to my original question, how long before fans will see the Savannah Bananas at Fenway Park?
In an interview with Bananas star pitcher Kyle Luigs, he shed some light on that topic.
“Obviously it’s a larger task. Like I said before we played in front of almost 10,000 (fans) in one night. Um, so figuring out and growing our team in the front office and how we can do that. I think Fenway seats about 34,000 (fans), somewhere around in that ballpark, so how can we physically handle selling that many tickets. And getting a following around there, I think we’d have to play somewhere around in that area to gain the following and physically seeing us play before we tackle Fenway.”
“If I was a betting man, I wouldn’t bet against us,” added Luigs.
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