The owner of Savannah Bananas declines a $1 million ticket offer

Indianapolis, Indiana – An offer of $1 million for tickets to the tour that will stop in Indianapolis this summer, according to the owner of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, was turned down.

Jesse Cole alleges in a LinkedIn post that he was approached by an unidentified entity with an offer to purchase a “large amount of group tickets for every single game” on the Bananas’ 2023 national tour.

On June 29 and 30, two games are scheduled to be played at Victory Field in Indianapolis as part of that tour.

“The total order would have come out to around $1,000,000 and produced half-a-million dollars in extra profit for our team,” Cole wrote. “Crazy. But I didn’t consider it for even a second.”

Cole called the practice, “common at the highest levels and biggest events in sports, where often teams participate in the secondary market with resellers and make tons of extra profit on their tickets.”

Additionally, he claims that the practice runs counter to the goals of his business, Fans First Entertainment.

Nationwide, more than 500,000 individuals have joined the waitlist for tickets.

Of the 33 cities on the 2023 tour, the Indianapolis games are said to have the largest waitlist for tickets.

The organization has not made the Indianapolis ticket-purchasing procedure public.

A lottery system is anticipated, with tickets going on sale about two months prior to game days.

“I hope we can continue to keep it pure and the way we and all of us with the Bananas intended…a place we can all come together and have fun,” Cole wrote in the post.