The Savannah Bananas are to baseball what the Harlem Globetrotters are to basketball. Former MLB players join the traveling exhibition team that plays and performs before adoring fans .

Now it appears MLB wants to get in on the action with the prospect of a formal partnership, per Evan Drellich of The Athletic.

According to Bananas owner Jesse Cole, he foresees more from his team than just simply performing.

“This isn’t the Globetrotters. We’re building a sport,” Cole said. “I have Little Leagues reaching out every day that they say they want to do Banana Ball League. They don’t want to play regular baseball, their kids want to play Banana Ball. They want to have a yellow banana ball, the first ball that they pick up. It’s different. My seven-year-old kid, that’s all he does is tr

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