Founded in 2016, The Savannah Bananas are an exhibition barnstorming baseball team famous for their crowd pleasing in game gimmicks. Nightly entertainment includes a 10-foot tall pitcher who takes the mound on stilts, over the top scoring celebrations and highly choreographed hitter walk ups including this recent one by right fielder Reese Alexiades.
Reece donned a US Ski Team speed suit he picked up on a recent trip to Utah as he was towed into the batter box. Reece stepped up to the plate in ski boots and proceed he hit a dinger to centerfield. During his trot around the bases he was met at third with his poles and he skied his way to home plate. This team is amazing.
Right fielder Reese Alexiades skies up to the plate THEN hits a Homerun🤯 pic.twitter.com/YSx6NzR0A0
— Savannah Bananas (@TheSavBananas) September 2, 2024
Next time want to make Reece a jump. Can’t wait to see that!
Reece snagged that speed suit and gear when The Savanah Bananas joined the US Ski Team at the Olympic Training Center in Utah. Reece sent it off the water ramp and rotated his first ever backflip into a foam pit.
About The Savanah Bananas:
We first arrived in Savannah in October of 2015 with a goal to make baseball fun and bring back fans to Historic Grayson Stadium.
For the first time, minor league baseball had left the city, after calling Savannah home for 90 years. Now because of this, we realized that getting fans excited for a college summer team was harder than we could have ever imagined.
In our first few months, we only sold a handful of tickets. By January of 2016, just months before our first game, the team had over-drafted our account. Owners, Jesse and Emily Cole were forced to sell their home to keep the team going.
Then everything changed on February 25, 2016, when we named the team the Savannah Bananas.
This announcement created massive attention locally and nationally, being covered by CBS, NBC, and Sports Illustrated, even being featured as SportsCenters’s Logo of the Year.
But the name was not liked or appreciated by most people in Savannah. We heard comments like whoever came up with the team should be fired. The owner should be thrown out of town. “You’ll never sell a ticket”. We even did a mean tweet video a year later to share some of the “love” we received.
But even with mixed reviews we were finally on the map and people knew who we were.
With all the attention, we were able to sell out Opening Night. Our fans were met with a completely unique experience featuring all-inclusive food, our senior citizen dance team, the first Banana Baby, and dancing players.
Since the first season, we’ve sold out every single game – over 200 and counting
- We play Banana Ball– the fastest and most entertaining game of baseball.
- Our players perform choreographed dances every game – Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Mariah Carey – You name it, they’ve danced to it
- Every game we have a 3-2-2, which stands for 3rd inning, second batter, second pitch. These are unique in-game pre-pitch dances that have combined together for over 300 million views on TikTok.
- We are the only baseball team to play in kilts. That’s right, kilts.
- Our players perform in over-the-top music videos like Old Town Road, Can’t Stop the Peeling, and I Don’t Dance.
- Our hitters walk-ups are legendary. Bananas may be escorted to the plate by the Banana Pep Band, walk down the yellow carpet wearing the finest Dolce and Banana, or they may even introduce themselves.
- We are known for our epic scoring celebrations. From running through the crowd to performing fully choreographed country line dances. When we score, you never know what will happen next.
- We have the World’s Tallest Hitter and Pitcher with Dakota “Stilts” Albritton who stands 10 feet tall.
