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History forgets some of the 'winners'

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Sunday, July 12, 2009

ST. LOUIS -- It's the not-so-fatal flaw in one of America's most beloved sporting events, the Home Run Derby. We remember those home run balls flying through the stratosphere. We remember where those home runs landed -- splatting off distant scoreboards, scattering pedestrians, plopping into unsuspecting bodies of water. And we remember the men who launched those home runs, one after another after another. There's only one little detail we occasionally forget: Who the heck won? Not that ...

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