Banana Ball's racial minstrelsy past

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Aug 28, 202627:02News & Politics

Banana Ball is a barnstorming baseball league revived by the tremendously popular Savannah Bananas, a team with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram — known as much for their dance routines and shenanigans as th...

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