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David and Goliaths: How a young Big Papi beat Griffey, A-Rod in the greatest HR derby you've never heard of

Twenty years ago, on the last Monday in July, baseball's biggest superstar and his heir apparent came to a rain-soaked field 100 miles north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nearly 6,000 people crammed into Fox Cities Stadium to get a glimpse of them -- backwards cap-wearing Ken Griffey Jr. and skinny, fresh-faced Alex Rodriguez -- in an exhibition game for the Seattle Mariners.

It was as hot a ticket as there ever was in the decades-long history of minor league baseball in Appleton, Wisconsin.

"And then," David Ortiz says, "I stole the show.