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Hit Parade: Bucking the ballpark beliefs

By Brendan Roberts
ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Rogers Centre in Toronto is a great place for homers. AT&T Park in San Francisco is not a great place for homers. Great American Ball Park is a great place to score runs, while Turner Field is not. If somebody said those statements to you, you'd probably puff your bottom lip over your top lip, furl your brow and nod. Pretty basic stuff, and it's all true, right? Nope, not this season. ESPN has a handy little stats page called Park Factors. It uses an index to compare the rate of stats at home ...

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