The Savannah Bananas turned Yankee Stadium into a full-on spectacle \u2014 drawing thousands of fans for a night that looked nothing like traditional baseball.<\/p>\n
With the Bronx Bombers on the road, the stadium was still packed \u2014 but this time for dancing umpires, trick plays and nonstop entertainment known as \u201cBanana Ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fast-paced version of the game is designed to keep fans engaged from start to finish \u2014 capped at just two hours, no more, no less. And for many in the crowd, that\u2019s exactly what makes it appealing.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people don\u2019t find baseball that interesting \u2014 this is for those people,\u201d one spectator explained.<\/p>\n
But not everyone in the Bronx crowd was rooting for Savannah. Their rivals, the Party Animals, also drew plenty of support.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo to Party Animals!\u201d Dom shouted.<\/p>\n
Even with the game rescheduled a day earlier than planned, the turnout didn\u2019t suffer. Fans traveled from across the country to be part of the Banana Ball World Tour \u2014 including one family from Wyoming.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe flew from our small town in Wyoming,\u201d one woman said. \u201cWe saw them in Denver last year and loved it so much we had to come back and see them again.\u201d<\/p>\n
For many, seeing Yankee Stadium filled with fans again \u2014 even for a non-traditional game \u2014 was part of the experience.<\/p>\n
And with rain in the forecast, fans made it clear they weren\u2019t letting a little rotten weather spoil the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Savannah Bananas turned Yankee Stadium into a full-on spectacle \u2014 drawing thousands of fans for a night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-209186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}