MILWAUKEE (AP) — Maybe the Home Run Derby doesn’t have to be limited to All-Star weekend.

The Milwaukee Brewers had Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and several other former players competing in an alumni home run derby that followed a game with the Miami Marlins last month. The promotion helped draw a sellout crowd of 41,944 fans, with nearly all of them sticking around to watch the postgame event.

Other clubs noticed, too.

“I thought it was a great idea and applaud them,” Arizona Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall said. “I believe all of us will be considering something similar.”

Brewers manager Pat Murphy is among those already has been conjuring up ways to expand on this idea.

“I think it just opens the door,” Murphy said. “Can you imagine the Brewers versus the Cubs home run d

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