Box Score 7/6: Time to get your last-second votes in

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while stuffing the All-Star ballot box with last minute votes. 

Happy birthday today to Manny Machado, Justin Schultz, Brandon Jacobs, Pau Gasol, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood and Willie Randolph. On this date in 1997 the Montreal Expos retired Andre Dawson's number. 

Daily brain workout

Name the MLB players with the most career multiple-HR games in our the 'Babe goes out with a bang' quiz.

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• BIG3 Referee Hotline Bling: Kwame Brown can't mute Michael Jordan. 
• It's win now time for perpetually over-invested Red Sox.
• Best NBA free agent signing all time by team. 

Around the league

• How Rory McIlroy breathed new life into the Irish Open. [NYT]
• Takeru Kobayashi – a man who knows his hot dogs – weighs in on the 'is a hot dog a sandwich?' debate. [B/R]
• Are female athlete concussion concerns ignored? [espnW]

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