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If you’re hoping to see the Savannah Bananas when they visit Busch Stadium in April, you may need some luck.

The Bananas, baseball’s answer to the Harlem Globetrotters, visit ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ on April 4 and 5, and demand here is higher than any other city among the 40 the team will visit in 2025, a team official said this week.

There were more than 160,000 entries in the first 72 hours of the lottery for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Banana Ball tickets, the team said this week. The lottery list here was the largest of any city on the team’s 2025 tour, which includes numerous Major League Baseball parks and even some larger pro and college football venues.

Each entrant can buy up to five tickets, and a “small allocation� of tickets was set aside for Cardinals season ticketholders, so suffice to say, demand greatly exceeds supply.

The process for procuring a ticket began months ago. Fans had to enter a lottery last October. On Wednesday, those who were selected in the lottery were sent an email to go through a verification process that includes submitting a photo of their government identification as well as taking a selfie.

Fans who received a verification email must complete that process by Friday evening.

Then next Wednesday, those who have been verified will be randomly assigned a time slot to buy tickets, but the team warns that tickets could sell out before your time slot arrives.

The rigorous verification process is important to the team, which has sold out every game it has ever played.

“We want to ensure that real tickets are ending up in the hands of real fans,� a team official said in an email this week. “We’re confident that bots and scalpers aren’t able to get their hands on tickets through this verification process.�

Tickets are $40 to $75 with no added fees. The team turned down a lucrative offer from a ticket broker for double face value for an allotment of tickets from every game on the tour, an official confirmed this week.

Dubbed the greatest show in sports, the barnstorming Bananas feature . There’s no bunting — that’s an ejection. There are no walks. An out is recorded if a fan catches a foul ball. Batters can steal first base.

The team has featured a dancing first base coach, the first-ever , and a Dad Bod cheerleading team, among other stunts designed to maximize entertainment value

The Bananas have also been called , with nearly 9 million followers, millions more than any MLB team. The Bananas’ account features , among other hijinks.

The Bananas began as a collegiate summer league team. That team folded in 2022 in favor of full-time Banana Ball. The franchise now consists of three spinoff squads in addition to the Bananas.

The Bananas will face the Party Animals at Busch Stadium.

The Bananas and their sister teams, which also include the Firefighters and Texas Tailgaters — will visit 40 cities in 2025. The schedule includes games at Atlanta’s Truist Park, Yankee Stadium, Baltimore’s Camden Yards and more than a dozen other major league parks, up from six last year. Games will also be played at a storied college football venue, Clemson’s Death Valley, as well as NFL stadiums in Nashville and Charlotte.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ native Noah Niznik, a , plays for the Bananas. Niznik attended Vianney and Southeast Missouri State.