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CLEMSON — Before the Savannah Bananas play baseball at Memorial Stadium, Clemson football quarterback Cade Klubnik gave them a tour of Death Valley on April 25.
Klubnik met the Bananas in front of the venue's Oculus, where Clemson coaches and players enter after its Tiger Walk. He gave them a tour of its locker room and explained some of Clemson's traditions, including "Best is the Standard," Howard's Rock and running down The Hill.
Some of the Bananas players even practiced running down The Hill, and Klubnik threw football passes to members of the Bananas on the modified field.
The Bananas baseball team will face the Party Animals on April 26 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN2) in "Banana Ball," which emphasizes entertainment rather than competitive baseball. They are renting the stadium at no charge, according to documents obtained by The Greenville News via an open records request.
This was Klubnik's second time interacting with baseball this week after throwing out the first pitch ahead of Clemson baseball's game vs. Georgia on April 22. He said, during ESPN's broadcast, that he played baseball growing up but stopped when he was young.
For the Bananas, they sold 81,000 tickets for the April 26 game. Memorial Stadium will give them a chance to break their single-game attendance record, which was set last month at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida, with 65,000.
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Clemson also hosted the first-ever Banana Ball All-Star Game in November at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, where the Tigers baseball team faced the Bananas in an exhibition game.
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
This article originally appeared on Greenville News: Cade Klubnik: Clemson QB shows off Memorial Stadium to Savannah Bananas
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Klubnik met the Bananas in front of the venue's Oculus, where Clemson coaches and players enter after its Tiger Walk. He gave them a tour of its locker room and explained some of Clemson's traditions, including "Best is the Standard," Howard's Rock and running down The Hill.
Some of the Bananas players even practiced running down The Hill, and Klubnik threw football passes to members of the Bananas on the modified field.
The Bananas baseball team will face the Party Animals on April 26 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN2) in "Banana Ball," which emphasizes entertainment rather than competitive baseball. They are renting the stadium at no charge, according to documents obtained by The Greenville News via an open records request.
This was Klubnik's second time interacting with baseball this week after throwing out the first pitch ahead of Clemson baseball's game vs. Georgia on April 22. He said, during ESPN's broadcast, that he played baseball growing up but stopped when he was young.
For the Bananas, they sold 81,000 tickets for the April 26 game. Memorial Stadium will give them a chance to break their single-game attendance record, which was set last month at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida, with 65,000.
DREAMING BIG: How Savannah Bananas inspired Erik Bakich to make Clemson baseball games more fun, including cannon, stilts
Clemson also hosted the first-ever Banana Ball All-Star Game in November at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, where the Tigers baseball team faced the Bananas in an exhibition game.
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
This article originally appeared on Greenville News: Cade Klubnik: Clemson QB shows off Memorial Stadium to Savannah Bananas
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