2007 Home Run Derby News

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How to Improve the Home Run Derby

If you've been reading the FanHouse today, you're probably familiar with my perhaps-too-virulent rant about the Home Run Derby as compared to the All-Star Game. If you gathered anything of importance from that diatribe, it's that I happen to really enjoy the Home Run Derby. But, as Jayson Stark points out at ESPN.com...

Drop the Charade: The Home Run Derby Is Better Than the All-Star Game

I hate pretense. It's something that almost ruins NCAA athletics for me. Everybody carries on like Division I athletes are amateurs, that everyone follows an archaic recruiting guidebook, that no one cheats or slips people a little money here and there. None of it's true, of course, and it's people that argue for the NCAA...

2007 Home Run Derby News From the Web

07/11/11 Holliday Slugs 5 HR's in Derby Source: KMOX 1120 - St. Louis MO PHOENIX, Az. Participating in his third career Home Run Derby, Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday hit 5 home runs on fifteen swings Monday night at Chase Field in the first round of the competition.
07/11/11 MLB Home Run Derby: Yadier Molina PItches To Matt... Source: SB Nation St. Louis Matt Holliday 's third trip to the MLB Home Run Derby was a team affair, with St. Louis Cardinals catcher and fellow All-Star Yadier Molina throwing him batting practice.

Background on 2007 Home Run Derby

The 2007 State Farm Home Run Derby was a 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game event. The Home Run Derby was held on July 9 at AT&T Park, the home field of the San Francisco Giants.

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