Roy Hobbs World Series

Sunday, October 17, 2021 - Saturday, November 20, 2021

Roy Hobbs is more than just a literary figure created by author Bernard Malamud in a 1952 novel, and more than an old baseball player who was immortalized on screen by Robert Redford in the 1984 film “The Natural.” Every fall, more than 10,000 baseball players (and their families) on 240 teams flock to Fort Myers to play in Roy Hobbs Baseball’s annual World Series. They come to celebrate the great game of baseball, perhaps recapture their youth and engage in two great American pastimes – baseball and capitalism. They come for the games and camaraderie, the fun and the competition, the sunshine, green grass and swaying palms of Southwest Florida. They come to relax, to recreate and even relocate … and they make Roy Hobbs Baseball into an economic powerhouse for the Lee County Business Community on an annual basis. The players come from near and far. From Tallahassee and Nova Scotia, from Florida’s east coast to the Great Northwest, from Chicago and Boston and towns across the fruited plain you’ve never heard of before. They even have come from Canada, Russia, the Ukraine, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. They also come and spend money. Local restaurateurs, hoteliers and government officials know what the Roy Hobbs World Series has meant to Lee County’s economy since it moved here in 1993. Back then, 54 teams competed. Now it’s pushing 5 times that number. All those teams and all those players (and their families) come and do more than crack singles to right and snag pop-ups. They spend…

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