Hamilton hit a shocking 35 homers                             
 There was a moment in the first round of the Home Run Derby, just after his 17th homer -- a 497-foot bomb hit as jazzed fans at Yankee Stadium began chanting his name -- when Josh Hamilton just looked up at his surroundings and smiled. It was one of the more genuine smiles in baseball history, the smile of a man not only shining on the big stage, but one who truly understood and appreciated what it meant to be on that stage at all. Hamilton was on his way to shattering the derby record with 28 homers in the first round, but still, he needed a moment to take in exactly what was happening.
Just when you think you're finally ready to tuck away Josh Hamilton's intricate past into the "old news" file, the guy goes and does something like this. By 9:49 on Monday night, Hamilton had done what seemed impossible. He became an even more inspirational figure than he had been before, when his story was merely one of utter misery and bleakness turned into glorious redemption. By the end of the night, he'd hit 35

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