Hammerin' Hank Blalock in the Homerun Derby this year.....
NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants and Hank Blalock of the Texas Rangers were added to next week's All-Star Home Run Derby, filling out the field of eight competitors.
Bonds, Philadelphia's Jim Thome, Cincinnati's Ken Griffey Jr. and the Cubs' Sammy Sosa will represent the National League on Monday night in Houston.
The AL participants are Blalock, New York's Jason Giambi, Boston's David Ortiz and Baltimore's Rafael Palmeiro.
All four active players with 500 homers will compete: Bonds (681), Sosa (553), Palmeiro (540) and Griffey (500). Thome, who hit his 400th home run last month, connected for his major league-leading 28th of the season Thursday night.
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