PHILADELPHIA — Tristan Peters’ path to his first MLB All-Star Game has included many stops along the way.

One of those includes a brief 17-game stint at Historic Grayson Stadium, with a team whose owner wears a yellow tuxedo and top hat and whose players dance and do TikToks in the middle of games: the Savannah Bananas, of course.

Sure, the Bananas when Peters played for them weren’t the Bananas of today, having taken over the baseball sphere with their Banana Ball antics. Jesse Cole’s team was still a summer college baseball team in the Coastal Plain League.

It doesn’t matter to Peters, though, now an outfielder with the Chicago White Sox. He was still a Banana. And no, he isn’t tired of answering questions about his time in Savannah in the summer of 2021.

“No, I look back very fondly,” Peters said Monday, July 13, at Citizens Bank Park ahead of the Midsummer Classic. “I think it really put the fun back in baseball because sometimes, especially in college, just trying to perform, you get focused on that. You’r…