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Article: A POWERFUL STATEMENT HOME RUN DERBY: HAMILTON HITS 28 HRS IN FIRST ROUND, LOSES IN FINALS TO MORNEAU.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2008
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Byline: Tony Jackson
Staff Writer
NEW YORK -- Baseball's ultimate redemption story came to baseball's ultimate venue Monday night. The result for Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton might not have been the champion of this year's All-Star Home Run Derby -- that honor went to Minnesota first baseman Justin Morneau -- but that was incidental to what will go down as one of the greatest performances in the relatively short history of this event.
Before being bested 5-0 by Morneau in the final round, Hamilton shattered the previous single-round record by swatting 28 home runs in the first round. One of them almost became the first ball ever to leave Yankee Stadium, hitting ...
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