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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLoco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns join Banana Ball<\/p>\n
Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole introduces us to the newest Banana Ball teams, the Loco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The newest team of the\u00a0Savannah Bananas’ organization<\/a>\u00a0is headed to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n The Indianapolis Clowns<\/a>, who made their debut this year, officially joined the\u00a0Bananas<\/a>,\u00a0Party Animals<\/a>,\u00a0Firefighters<\/a>, Texas Tailgaters<\/a> and Loco Beach Coconuts\u00a0as teams to put an\u00a0entertainment-first twist on baseball<\/a>.<\/p>\n The exhibition team faces the Bananas on\u00a0June 19-21 at Great American Ball Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s what you need to know about the Indianapolis Clowns.<\/p>\n The original Clowns were founded in the 1930s as the Miami Giants before becoming the Ethiopian Clowns. After moving to Cincinnati<\/a> in the early 1940s and starting play in the Negro Leagues, they moved a couple seasons later and became the Indianapolis Clowns. The Clowns, known equally for their baseball skill and showmanship, were a barnstorming team playing in the waning years of the Negro Leagues.<\/p>\n The Clowns played all over the United States, playing as many as three games in a day. After the 1951 season, the Clowns relocated to Buffalo but retained the Indianapolis Clowns name,\u00a0according to an article in the Buffalo News.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n The new Indianapolis Clowns, who are on the Banana Ball World Tour, played in Indianapolis on May 15 and 16.<\/p>\n “Banana Ball is all about energy, entertainment, flipping the script \u2014 and you know what? That\u2019s exactly what the Negro Leagues brought to the game from day one. Flash. Innovation. Community and an unconditional love for the game. They were rockstars before the world called ballplayers that,” Clowns manager Errick Fox said in a statement.<\/p>\n The Indiana-based team hosted headliner home games at Victory<\/strong> Field<\/strong> in downtown Indianapolis.<\/p>\n However, they travel across the country during the 2026 Banana Ball World Tour, including Cincinnati.<\/p>\n The Clowns play 27 games against the Savannah Bananas<\/strong>, Party Animals,<\/strong> Texas Tailgaters<\/strong>, Loco Beach Coconuts<\/strong> and Firefighters<\/strong> in their first inaugural season.<\/p>\n The Clowns’ 2026 roster<\/a> features players from states all over the country, including Ohio. The team is coached by Errick Fox, former World Series Champion Ryan Howard, Willie Carter and Tony Voiro.<\/p>\n Here is the remainder of the Clowns’ 2026 schedule.<\/p>\n Tickets can be purchased on the Bananas’\u00a0Fans First Tickets app<\/a>, or on resale sites, such as\u00a0StubHub<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SeatGeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Indianapolis Star’s Nathan Baird contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cincinnati.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Loco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns join Banana Ball Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole introduces us to the newest Banana Ball teams, the Loco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns. The newest team of the\u00a0Savannah Bananas’ organization\u00a0is headed to Cincinnati. The Indianapolis Clowns, who made their debut this year, officially joined the\u00a0Bananas,\u00a0Party Animals,\u00a0Firefighters, Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2464244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[464284,356690,305127,22034,239348,47683,24392,21739,22764,484711,461944,211924,21738,23939,39215,239343,239453,328631,471918,21848,42570,239344],"class_list":["post-2464243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bananas","tag-buffalo","tag-cincinnati","tag-events","tag-events-u0026-listings","tag-league","tag-listings","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-negro","tag-negro-league","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-oh","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-savannah","tag-savannah-bananas","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-u0026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Who-are-the-Indianapolis-Clowns-Banana-Ball-team-has-Cincinnati-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464245,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464243\/revisions\/2464245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Savannah Bananas brought back historied Indianapolis Clowns<\/h2>\n
Where do the Indianapolis Clowns play?<\/h2>\n
What teams play against the Indianapolis Clowns?<\/h2>\n
Who plays for the Indianapolis Clowns?<\/h2>\n
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Indianapolis Clowns 2026 schedule<\/h2>\n
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How to get tickets to the Bananas-Clowns game in Cincinnati<\/h2>\n