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Overview needs pruned

The overview alone has a ton of information on changes to the playoff structure over the years, etc. Yet, somehow, in this entire long article, there is no mention of how pitching is done, what are the mechanics/rules that allow so many home runs, do the players have to round the bases, who catches, is there an ump, what if there is a bad pitch, etc. I would suggest making the overview one or two paragraphs, including an clearer explanation of the basics of how this thing is conducted, an no info in the overview of changes to the format over the years. Changes to the game format should probably be in a table or bullet list, and should be moved from the overview section.

Also, a simple step that would greatly improve readability would be to move the yearly 'scorecard' tables to their own page. Maybe replace these in the main article with a simple table of location, score, individual leader, and team by year. -LaTeeDa (talk) 02:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tables

Do we really need a table for each year? I was thinking about creating a table for all-time winners (odd this page doesn't have one), at which point those other tables, which seem borderline excessive to me, will be less useful. Thoughts? – Muboshgu (talk) 05:13, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most single derby home runs

Should a player be listed more that once in this list? It seems to me that it makes more sense to only include the personal best for each of these players. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.162.44.235 (talk) 04:00, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Trophy

Shouldn't it have a section about the trophy awarded to the champions (and the WWE belt used as an informal trophy)? 190.166.115.25 (talk) 16:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 15 July 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below; this also reunites the article with its old talk archive. Dekimasuよ! 03:53, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Home Run Derby (Major League Baseball) → Home Run Derby – Home Run Derby redirects here. kwan-in (talk) 14:55, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support if this is the primary topic jamacfarlane (talk) 16:05, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per Dave Nicholson. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:21, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support obviously. Enigma^msg 23:39, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This page was at the correct title until 5 years ago, when an abusive sockpuppet moved it. I really wish we'd put a stop to users moving pages without consensus. See here Enigma^msg 23:50, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support as this is a primary topic. Please stop people from moving pages without consensus from other users. DaveTheBrave ❯❯❯ Talk 02:45, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support There shouldn't be any need to further describe the home run derby. The name in on itself should be plainly obvious to people. Dannyyankee12_{let's talk} 15:16, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Pitching

I see that this has been raised before but can someone please explain how the pitching works. The photo shows the pitcher standing on some kind of wheeled contraption several feet in front of the mound. I'm confused. Tigerboy1966 11:17, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion

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