Connor Higgins sat in the stands at Citizens Bank Park as a kid and dreamed of taking that mound in front of packed house.
It’s safe to say he never pictured himself wearing a Mummer’s suit as he did it.
Higgins, a left-handed pitcher from Allentown, Pa., reached a lifelong goal in an unconventional fashion on Saturday night as the Savannah Bananas, a popular entertainment-based barnstorming baseball team that plays its own version of the sport known as Banana Ball, put on an exhibition in Philadelphia. He suited up for the opposing Party Animals at the Bank in front of an announced crowd of 45,000, the largest attendance the Bananas have attracted to date.