{"id":168753,"date":"2026-02-25T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168753\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:48:13","slug":"local-retailers-gearing-up-ahead-of-savannah-bananas-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168753\/","title":{"rendered":"Local retailers gearing up ahead of Savannah Bananas&#8217; arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE TOWN, FL \u2014 Stores are stocking up on Savannah Bananas gear ahead of their arrival, but one store has more than just apparel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academy.com\/storelocator\/florida\/tallahassee\/store-0112?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&amp;cjevent=7b6216b8125d11f1810800df0a82b839&amp;ogmap=AFF&amp;utm_source=cj&amp;clickid=7b6216b8125d11f1810800df0a82b839&amp;utm_campaign=Skimlinks&amp;utm_content=5370367\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Academy Sports + Outdoors <\/a>says they&#8217;re stocked year-round with Savannah Bananas gear, but are seeing an uptick in customer flow since Tallahassee was announced as the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the word got out that they were bringing their world tour to Tallahassee, and definitely as we&#8217;re getting up closer to the match up, it&#8217;s been even on social media, we&#8217;ve had hundreds of customers already expressed interest in coming to the event,&#8221; said Ryan Maddox, Sales Manager at Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The event he mentions is a meet &amp; greet happening this Friday at Academy from 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 p.m. The event will feature both the Savannah Bananas and the Texas Tailgaters, who will be facing off Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The event and autographs are free of charge. You can find a full list of Banana Ball events <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/local-news\/happening-this-week-2026-banana-ball-tour-comes-to-tallahassee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maddox says there is plenty of gear still available, from hats and bats to baseballs and jerseys. <\/p>\n<p>The baseballs have the Savannah Bananas logo printed on them and are available for purchase for $10.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE TOWN, FL \u2014 Stores are stocking up on Savannah Bananas gear ahead of their arrival, but one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,3412,52844,46610,3816,18780,28,80299,5254,105,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-168753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-abc-27","9":"tag-academy","10":"tag-apparel","11":"tag-banana-ball","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-college-town","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-gear","16":"tag-merchandise","17":"tag-outdoors","18":"tag-tallahassee","19":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","20":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}