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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what were reading while we're counting down the minutes first the first pitch today.
Happy birthday today to Conor McGregor, Nikolay Kulemin, Darrelle Revis, Tim Hudson, Erick Dampier and Robin Ventura. On this date in 1992 Ken Griffey Jr. was named MVP of the 1992 All-Star Game.
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Name the highest-paid player on every NBA team from the 2016-17 season in our 'NBA players are laughing all the way to the bank' quiz.
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Around the league
In a first for the YB Box Score, a cricket highlight (as a warning to baseball fans sitting in the outfield)
Errr, don't try a crowd catch with your in your hand! #newphoneneeded #Blast17 pic.twitter.com/pIMn6u4l6Y
— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) July 13, 2017
Have a good weekend everyone. Baseball's back. (So is "Game of Thrones." We're all here for that too.)
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