Tollin signed a deal for the scripted TV rights of the Bananas, the wildly popular baseball team which brings its Harlem Globetrotter-esque show to Citizens Bank Park on Saturday.
Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole founded the team in 2016 with his wife Emily and acts as a ringleader during each game.
Cole reached out a few years ago to Tollin, who was only slightly familiar with the Bananas. The team — which plays baseball under its own rule with a game called “Banana Ball” — sold out big-league ballparks across the country this year and has a waiting list for their games in Georgia. The Bananas were a collegiate summer league team until 2022, when Cole decided to go all-in on Banana Ball. Their games have a two-hour time limit and Cole eliminated all the “boring” parts of a baseball game like mound visits and walks. A foul ball caught in the stands is an out, the batters routinely dance to home plate, and one pitcher wears stilts on the mound. The players are high-caliber players — most played college ball — but the games are as much about the show than the baseball.
Tollin plans to spend the first season of the show with the Bananas’ origin story after Cole moved to Savannah in 2015 with his wife, Emily, and leased the town’s historic ballpark. The Coles sold their house, slept on an air mattress, emptied their bank accounts, and did whatever it took to make the Bananas work.
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