PARTICIPATION IN SCORING ASPECT IS STRICTLY OPTIONAL SO FEEL FREE TO FIND THE CACHE AND WATCH ALL THE ACTION FROM THE GRANDSTAND. GAME ON!
Welcome to the 2023 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. A new wrinkle in this year’s scoring system is participants are only allowed to a pick a player once during the season. In all subsequent weeks your pick must be different than any other player you had used in previous weeks.
This is week 23 of the series (23 of 25). All scoring will take place Friday, September 1st through Thursday, September 7th.
Prior to October 21, 1980, it was a tradition for baseball fans to rush the field when the home team won the World Series. Philadelphia decided to stop this practice through the use of mounted police and K-9 units who were brought to the edge of the playing field to stop fans from rushing onto the diamond. Players were told that if a ball struck any of the police officers it would still be in play. The tactic worked and only a few stray fans attempted to make it on to the field.
Currently, fans who rush the field may be banned from the venue for life as well as face a number of charges including trespassing.