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 2020 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 March 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 3 of the series (5 of 25). All scoring will take place Friday, April 24th through Thursday, April 30th. Participation in the derby is strictly optional so feel free to find the cache and watch all the action from the grandstand. Game on!
There have been several baseball players who also played another sport, such as Jim Thorpe, Deion Sanders, and Danny Ainge. In fact, I remember a baseball card featuring Ainge, a young second baseman for the Blue Jays.
Some consider Thorpe to be the best, but I have to go with Bo Jackson. He was an elite football player and a rapidly improving baseball player who made the all-star game before an injury curtailed his career. I remember hearing Harold Reynolds, a speedy player at the time, relay a story where he was on third base when his teammate belted one all the way to the warning track. Bo caught it flat footed. Reynolds figured he could walk home safely, yet still ran and was dumbfounded when the ball arrived like a rocket and he was out at the plate. After the game he watched the play repeatedly in disbelief.
BYOP and have fun!