2016 MWBL CHRISTMAS CLASSIC HOME RUN DERBY
Mesa, Arizona – For the third year now the Mid-West Baseball League Christmas Classic history took place in Mesa, Arizona. Hohokam Park was renovated in 2014 to a state of the art facility in the heart of Mesa. The Christmas Classic tradition continues in 2016, as Hohokam Park opened its gates to a record breaking crowd of just over 10,001 fans. Many of the fans came out to see Mid-West Baseball League stars, such as the likes of Nolan Arenado of the formerly Clovis Wheat Kings, David Ortiz of the former New York Outlaws & newcomers such as Matt Carpenter of the Columbus Explorers & fan favorite the home town Mesa Solar Sox himself Brian Dozier. Could the fan favorite show up and take 
the trophy, but in order to do so, Dozier would have to play the game & beat out some of the best in Mid-West League Baseball.
The weather was a perfect 68 degrees and the winds were warm, blowing out to left, but not more than 7 miles an hour. Humidity was at 66%, which ironically is the magic number for Home Runs in APBA. Twelve Mid-West Baseball League players, Six (6) from the American League & Six (6) from the National League were participants in the fourteenth (14) Annual Christmas Classic Home Run Derby.
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2016 CHRISTMAS CLASSIC PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED
The 2016 Christmas Classic will be held on Christmas Eve – December 24th, 2016 in Honolulu Hawaii at Hohokam Park.
How does the MWBL going to handle the Christmas Classic Home Run Derby? This is an idea that came from a league (BUNT), that the Commissioner checks out from time to time. Dave Snyderman one of the members came up with the idea a few years ago and which has been refined somewhat as they went along. The MWBL refined the idea a little more, and adopted the concept for the Christmas Classic Home Run Derby.
Representing the American & National League teams they finished 2016 with, will be the following twelve (12) players.
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| Mike Trout | Bryce Harper | Jose Bautista | Brian Dozier | Edwin Encarnacion | Jose Abreu |
| Motor City | Detroit | Tijuana | Mesa | Tijuana | Dallas |
| NATIONAL LEAGUE | |||||
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| Nolan Arenado | Nelson Cruz | Chris Davis | Yoenis Cespedes | Matt Carpenter | David Ortiz |
| Clovis | Clovis | Tempe | Tempe | Columbus | New York |
It is very simple really. What the MWBL Commissioner will do is take a pair of percentile dice. These are 2 dice, each with 10 sides, and ideally, both with different colors, one red one white. If you ever played any role playing games you probably have seen these dice. They are readily available at hobby shops and game stores that cater to the role play crowd. When rolled, these dice will produce a number between 01 and 00 thus the name percentile dice.