American sports entrepreneur and founder of the Savannah Bananas, a baseball entertainment team that replaced conventional minor league baseball with trick plays, dancing, and audience participation — selling out every event and becoming a global touring phenomenon.
Reimagined baseball as pure entertainment — eliminating everything fans complained about (long games, slow pace) and replacing it with choreographed trick plays, fan interaction, and spectacle — and proved the result was more commercially viable than conventional baseball.
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