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Kinnick Stadium is adding another out-of-the-box sports spectacle to its lore.

Iowa’s 96-year-old football facility hosted an Iowa-Oklahoma State wrestling meet (an NCAA-record 42,287 fans) in 2015 and a Hawkeyes’ women’s basketball exhibition game against DePaul (women’s basketball single-game record 55,646 fans) in 2023.

Thursday night on ESPN2, it was announced Kinnick will be turned into a baseball park next July 3 and 4 when the Savannah Bananas perform there. The stadium will have a capacity for 65,000 fans for the games. Given the national box office success of the Bananas in 2025, a pair of sellouts may be what Kinnick sees.

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