I am quite used to RBI, batting average, home runs, and of course, the stolen base since I lived through the 80’s as a child.

Ten years ago, Jesse Cole and his wife Emily arrived in Savannah to start a new baseball team. They soon had debts of $1million. A decade on, the Savannah Bananas are a nationwide phenomenon.

The highest-scoring offense in baseball had been in a fall slumber for nearly two full games of the American League Championship Series, and the Astros were in danger of being pushed to the brink of ...