Sanibel-Captiva News
Island tradition features baseball and camaraderie for community
Tickets to the Annual Sam Bailey's Islands Night are available throughout the community. For this year's game, the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels will go up against the Lakeland Flying Tigers on June 16 at 7 p.m. at the Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers. The gates will open at 6 p.m. The tradition was started over two decades ago by Sam Bailey, whose descendants own and operate Bailey's General Store on Sanibel, The Island Store on Captiva and the Sanibel Catering Company by Bailey's. Bailey wanted to get the whole island together in one place and came up with the ballpark. According to his ...
