David ‘Bat’ Masterson, center, celebrates his victory with past winners of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on July 20, 2024, outside Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West. Masterson, a 71-year-old retired helicopter pilot from Daytona Beach, bested 121 other contestants to take the look-alike title on his 10th attempt. The contest is a highlight of the island’s annual Hemingway Days festival that honors Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, who lived and wrote in Key West during most of the 1930s.