1.   Bonds scanned the packed stands, filled with people who had come out to see the Old Timers and the home-run hitting contest.

2.   Piazza also said he was looking forward to another chance at the interleague home-run hitting contest, in which he was shut out last year in Baltimore.

3.   The cable network has come up with yet another bit of technology to cover the hitting contest.

4.   Vaughn, meanwhile, is undecided whether to participate in the home-run hitting contest.