Banana Ball adds Mexico and Canada stops to 2027 tour, plans 360 game at Notre Dame
The traveling baseball league plans games in four cities across Mexico and Canada. A new two-field format is scheduled to debut at Notre Dame Stadium.
Banana Ball announced on Thursday, October 15, that its 2027 tour will include games in Mexico and Canada, ESPN reported. The traveling baseball league plans stops in Monterrey, Tijuana, Winnipeg and Toronto, extending a schedule that it says will cover 79 stadiums in 74 cities.
Creator and owner Jesse Cole told ESPN the league had heard demand for international games and decided the time was right. The four planned stops mark the international part of a tour that also includes 23 Major League Baseball stadiums and 10 football stadiums, according to ESPN.
How Banana Ball 360 is planned to work
The league also announced Banana Ball 360, a format in which teams switch between two fields inside one stadium between innings, ESPN reported. Its debut is scheduled for June 26, 2027, at Notre Dame Stadium, according to the South Bend Tribune. The organization said the layout would bring the action to all 80,000 fans; that reach is the league’s claim.
The South Bend Tribune also listed a June 24 date at Frank Eck Stadium. The company had not said what it would do there. Fans must enter the Banana Ball ticket lottery by October 31, the Tribune reported, without specifying a year for that deadline.
Other stops on the 2027 schedule
ESPN reported that the tour is due to visit the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa, and Cooperstown, New York. Its football venues include LSU’s Tiger Stadium and the Tennessee Titans’ Nissan Stadium. The Banana Bowl is scheduled for September 25, 2027, at Nissan Stadium.
All six teams are scheduled to take part in the Banana Ball Open from April 15 to 18, 2027, at ESPN Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, ESPN reported. The league also announced a January 2028 fan cruise to Puerto Rico, planned to end with a game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan.
The South Bend Tribune described Banana Ball as a six-team traveling league. It reported the organization’s social media figure of 4.3 million fans in 2026, a company figure that illustrates the scale of the audience it says it has reached as it plans the expanded tour.
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Sources and context
- Banana Ball goes international with games in Mexico, CanadaESPN (J.J. Post; multiple authors)
- Banana Ball is coming to Notre Dame Stadium in 2027South Bend Tribune (Austin Hough), republished by Yahoo Sports
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