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Three Strikes: Unlikely home run champions

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

STRIKE ONE -- TAKE FIVE DEPT.: A friend of ours in baseball posed a fun question the other day: Has there ever been a time when both home run leaders were Rule 5 picks? Well, yeah, as a matter of fact. Right now. Dan Uggla, a 2005 Rule 5 pick, is tied for the NL lead in homers. And Josh Hamilton, a 2006 pick, is tied for the AL lead in homers. I can't tell you with total assurance that there has never been any other day in history where we could say this. But I can tell you this: If these guy ...

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