Mo’ne Davis just can’t get away from baseball, or something like it.

The 25-year-old baseball player who got famous in the 2010s as the best Little League World Series pitcher of her era just signed on to play with the Indianapolis Clowns, the team announced on its X account on Wednesday.

Fans might be familiar with the Clowns to the extent they know about the history of Negro League baseball, or the variant of the sport made famous more recently by the Savannah Bananas barnstorming team. The Clowns were founded in the 1930s as one of the teams in the Negro Leagues, a confederation of teams set up by Black entrepreneurs and players when Major League Baseball was segregated.

The team is credited for giving Hank Aaron his start in the pros, and having had legendary pitcher Satchel Paige on its roster for a time. The Clowns also made Toni Stone, who played second base, the first woman to play professional baseball when they signed her in 1953, ironically to replace Aaron. The team went defunct decades ago, but was revived last year as one of six teams to play “Banana Ball”, a variation on baseball made famous by the barnstorming Savannah Bananas team.

The sport, which features music, trick plays, dancing umpires, and even a pitcher on stilts, has gotten so popular that Bananas games have sold out Major League stadiums and been broadcast live on ESPN.

Davis is experiencing a resurgence of popularity more than a decade after her iconic performance in the 2014 Little League World Series. At age 13, she was the first girl to pitch a LLWS shutout game.

She told Sports Illustrated in 2025 that she resolved to walk away from the sport after playing softball at Hampton University, but picked her glove back up when the Women’s Professional Baseball League formed last year. She was drafted 10th overall in that league in November.