Home Run Derby participants are starting to take shape, and Athletics' Brent Rooker recently accepeted the invitation.

Catfish Hunter debuted for the Kansas City Athletics in 1965 at 19, the year after going pro. It took time — and a move to Oakland — for him to get his feet fully under him, but once he did, Hunter was brilliant.

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