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What Major League Baseball can learn from the mega success of the Savannah Bananas

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Fews App Post Time 1h ago

When he was 23, Jesse Cole was general manager of the Gastonia Grizzlies baseball team in Gastonia, NC — and it was going badly. With only a couple hundred people watching the games and money fast running out, he decided to try something different to boost attendances, handing out whoopee cushions at Flatulence Fun Night and hosting a Salute to Underwear Night, where anyone wearing their underwear on the outside of their clothes gained free entry. Soon he added music, dancing and fireworks and went big on interactive fan experiences, like a Grandma Beauty Pageant and Dunk the GM in the Dunk Tank, and, sure enough, attendances went through the roof.

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