Banana Ball in Norfolk? Squashed.

The Savannah Bananas and their affiliated teams are not slated to make a visit to Norfolk’s Harbor Park in 2026, according to the club’s schedule released this week.

The Bananas sold out six events at 12,000-seat Harbor Park during the summers of 2024 and 2025. But the Bananas and their Harlem Globetrotter-like antics, dubbed “Banana Ball,” will get only as close as Richmond — at the Double-A Flying Squirrels’ new CarMax Park — next season.

The Firefighters played the Party Animals for three games at Harbor Park in 2025, while the Savannah Bananas, the marquee Banana Ball team, played in Norfolk in 2024. The games feature players who take frequent, choreographed dance breaks and back-flips, and behind-the-back and between-the-legs catches are routine.

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