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鈥楲ong Shot鈥: 8 observations shared in Mike Piazza鈥檚 autobiography

Check out some of Piazza's thoughts on baseball from his autobiography 'Long Shot.'

6. Failure in All-Star spotlight

Joe McEwing (l.), John Valentin (center) and Piazza (r.) stand during a ceremony to honor the one-year anniversary of 9/11 John Bazemore/AP

As good a slugger as Piazza was, he was a total flop in the All-Star Game home run derbies. After hitting zero homers in both 1993 and 1994, he excused himself from joining the slugfests, opting instead on a few occasions to provide broadcasting commentary for the TV coverage.

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