Chicago Sun-Times
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Next All-Star stop: Wrigley Field, where the last Home Run Derby was so punchless, it's truly crazy
PHILADELPHIA — It wasn’t White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami’s swing that was off in the Home Run Derby, but rather his timing.
Murakami, whose nine homers weren’t enough to get him past the first round in an event won by the Cardinals’ Jordan Walker, would have been better off competing in 1990.
That year, the last time the All-Star Game was at Wrigley Field, a hilariously punchless Derby produced a grand total of five home runs — three of them hit by the Cubs’ Ryne Sandberg, who won it.…
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