I was with my walking group the other day and someone said his wife got a free ticket to Savannah Bananas. We all looked at him and I asked, what is the Savannah Bananas. He actually did not know if it was a band or what. Then the next day it starts coming out in the local news. The Savannah Bananas are the Harlem Globetrotters to baseball.

Wow! Pretty cool.

The line stretched around the Dairy Queen on West Broadway in Maryville as Savannah Bananas fans from near and far traveled to meet their favorite team.

“We have over 7,500 people for the Thursday game at Covenant Health Park, which will be the largest attendance at that venue since it opened,” said Kim Bumpass, the President of Visit Knoxville. “And then we’ve sold over 110,000 tickets at Neyland on Saturday.”