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===Gold balls=== From 2005 to 2013, a gold ball has been used once a player reaches nine outs (in 2014 when the T-Mobile Ball came into play, six; since 2015, during the final minute). If a batter hit a home run using the golden ball, [[Century 21 Real Estate]] and [[Major League Baseball]] would donate $21,000 (a reference to the "21" in "Century 21") per home run to charity (MLB donated to the [[Boys & Girls Clubs of America]], and Century 21 donated to [[Easterseals (U.S.)|Easterseals]]). In both 2005 and 2006, $294,000 was raised for the charities, equaling 14 golden ball home runs per year. [[State Farm]] continued this in 2007 as they designated $17,000 per home run (one dollar for each of State Farm's agencies), to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In the [[2007 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby|2007 event]], 15 golden balls were hit for a donation of $255,000, and 10 ($170,000) were hit in the [[2008 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby|2008 event]]. For [[2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby|2009]], State Farm added $5,000 for all non-Gold Ball homers, and $517,000 was collected. For [[2010 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby|2010]], the non-Gold Ball homer was reduced to $3,000 per home run and a total of $453,000 was collected. Since [[2014 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby|2014]] any homer hit off a magenta T-Mobile Ball resulted in a $10,000 donation to charity by T-Mobile and MLB, to [[Team Rubicon]].
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