The Sun Sox finished their inaugural season in second place in the Southern Division with a 37–35 record. Their offense was led by the league's top hitter, Tim Ireland, who posted a .374 batting average, while Kim Allen topped the circuit with 33 stolen bases and Amos Otis belted 11 home runs. Unfortunately, the Sun Sox were eliminated by the Bradenton Explorers in the playoffs.[2]
The following season, ownership squabbles in Fort Myers caused the Sun Sox to fold and the league to cease operations less than halfway through its second season.[2]
The statistics for all teams that played the 1989–90 season were published in the Sporting News on February 12, 1990, pages 30–31 "Assessing the Boys of Winter".
1 2 1989–1990 Fort Myers Sun Sox. The Trading Card Database. Retrieved on February 23, 2016.[The Sporting News, February 12th, 200. Pages 30-31]
1 2 3 Solomon, Burt (1997). The Baseball Timeline: The Day-By-Day History of Baseball, from Valley Forge to the Present Day. Avon Books. ISBN978-0-3807-8291-8
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