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2019 Home Run Derby: Hit one for the fences Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/29/2019
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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PARTICIPATION IN SCORING ASPECT IS STRICTLY OPTIONAL SO FEEL FREE TO FIND THE CACHE AND WATCH ALL THE ACTION FROM THE GRANDSTAND.


Welcome to the 2019 home run derby! Every Saturday morning a new cache will be released. After it is published you will have roughly a week to find it and select a slugger to represent you in that week's edition of the home run derby. Select one player and include his name in your log. The number of home runs he hits the following week (starting the Friday after cache publication) is your score; don't worry, we will handle all the scoring. The series will be cumulative points from April through September, with a week off over the All Star break.

The "catch" is every player must be unique, so FTF has choice of any player, second to find will have second pick and so on. The cache hiders will also be playing so the cache owner will select fifth each week.

This is WEEK 22 of the series (22 of 24). All scoring will take place Friday, September 6th through Thursday, September 12th. Participation in the derby is strictly optional so feel free to find the cache and watch all the action from the grandstand. Game on!


Bring your own pen.


What is the height of an average major league baseball fence?

 
No one’s calculated that as far as I know because there is no standard size for such things.

Fences run from 4 feet or so in front of the bullpen in Fenway to 37′ 3″ for the green monster in left.

The brickwork at Wrigley is 11 1/2 feet while the Coliseum has 15 foot walls in the power alleys but eight feet down the lines.

Minute Maid Park’s walls are all different heights Left field - 19 feet, Left-center - 25 feet, Center field - 10 feet, Right-center - 10 feet, Right field - 7 feet.

Turner Field was eight feet, four inches all the way around but the wall at Sun Trust Park wall to be only six feet high at the left-field foul pole; eight feet, eight inches high in left-center and center field; and 16 feet high in right field, including at the right-field foul pole.

Googling each ballpark will give you the wall height. Calculating the average will be your math homework.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)