MLB All-Star Home Run Derby: I Really Like This Promotion
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Posted By: Darren Rovell Readers of this blog know that when there’s a good promotion, I’m going to talk about it. This one involves the Major League Baseball All-Star Game Home Run Derby. In the past, when this was sponsored by Century 21, the company gave the fan whose player won the derby $250,000 towards the purchase of a home. Read More
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Fans Get to Go All Babe Ruth-Like at the Home Run Derby
Published 5/15/2008 by Will Brinson at FanHouse
Filed under: New York, MLB All-Star Game, MLB Fans, MLB BizKudos to State Farm for making this year's Home Run Derby more exciting, by letting one fan call his/her shot, thereby adding some much needed drama to the event. Via Darren Rovell, comes State Farm's intriguing new promotion for the Derby in New York. Here's the deal. One lucky fan picked out of the pool of entered names in the contest will get to come onto the field and call, a la Babe Ruth, where exactly Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz will hit his first pitch. If Ortiz hits the shot where the fan said it would ...
