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Article: Coors Field fitting locale for today's homer contest
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- July 6, 1998
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DENVER (AP) - Imagine the NBA holding a slam-dunk contest on a 9-
foot hoop or golfers playing the U.S. Open on a par-3 course.
That's what today's All-Star Home Run Derby will be like with some
of baseball's biggest sluggers launching balls into mile-high air.
"To me, that's going to be the highlight of this whole All-Star
Game," said San Diego's Tony Gwynn.
In this, the Year of the Homer in baseball, there is no more
fitting venue to host St. Louis' Mark McGwire and the other long-ball
contestants than Coors Field, where more homers have been hit the
past two seasons than in any other major league ballpark.
The lineups had not yet been completed Sunday for the event, which