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Major League Baseball(R) Team Mascots Step Up to the Plate for Pittsburgh-area Boys & Girls Club During 2006 MLB(TM) All-Star Week(TM) PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- In a league of their own, eight Major League Baseball team mascots will take their turn at bat in the fifth- annual CENTURY 21 Mascot Home Run Derby event on Saturday, July 8 at 10 a.m. (EDT) at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center located in Pittsburgh. The event is part of John Hancock All-Star FanFest(R) and is one of the Major League Baseball All-Star Week main attractions. Each mascot will be matched randomly with a child representative from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western PA. Similar to the CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby competition, whose winner receives $250,000 towards a home, one lucky child will win a CENTURY 21 Dream Clubhouse when his or her Major League Baseball mascot partner captures the 2006 CENTURY 21 Mascot Home Run Derby title. The line-up of home run hitting mascots includes: * * TC(TM) -- Minnesota Twins * Paws(TM) -- Detroit Tigers * Junction Jack(TM) -- Houston Astros * Lou Seal(TM) -- San Francisco Giants * Pirate Parrot(TM) -- Pittsburgh Pirates * The Orioles Bird(TM) -- Baltimore Orioles * Freebird(TM) -- St. Louis Cardinals * Wally the Green Monster(TM) -- Boston Red Sox The CENTURY 21(R) System's own feathered mascots Nestor and Houser will also be in attendance to cheer on those competing for the CENTURY 21 Mascot Home Run Derby(R) crown. Last year, TC(TM), mascot for the Minnesota Twins(R), took the CENTURY 21 Mascot Home Run Derby title, enabling Adrianne Scott, 9, from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan's Howard B. Bloomer Club, to win her very own CENTURY 21 Dream Clubhouse. As the "Official Real Estate Organization of Major League Baseball(R)," Century 21 Real Estate LLC, also serves as title sponsor of the CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby competition which ESPN and ESPN Deportes will televise live from PNC Park in Pittsburgh on Monday, July 10 beginning at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). This popular exhibition of home run hitting skill will decide the grand-prize winner of the 2006 CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby All-Star Sweepstakes which offers $250,000 toward the purchase of a home. Century 21 Real Estate LLC (http://www.century21.com/) is the franchisor of the world's largest residential real estate sales organization, providing comprehensive training, management, administrative and marketing support for the CENTURY 21 System. The System is comprised of 7,800 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in more than 40 countries and territories worldwide. Century 21 Real Estate LLC is a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD). CENTURY 21(R) is a registered trademark licensed to Century 21 Real Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each CENTURY 21 Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights (including Home Run Derby) are used with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. CENTURY 21 is the official real estate organization of Major League Baseball. This program is available through participating CENTURY 21 offices and does not require the listing or purchase of real estate through a CENTURY 21 office as a condition of participation. Sweepstakes promotions and promotions which offer or advertise benefits to consumers are currently unavailable under the anti-sweepstakes laws of Fla., Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico and the real estate commission interpretations of the laws of Mo. and Okla. Sweepstakes entries could be considered consumer benefits under such laws. In addition, consumer benefits may not be conditioned upon doing business, that is, listing with or purchasing through a particular real estate office in the states of Kan., N.J., Ohio and R.I. and in Md., in connection with lotteries/games of chance. * participants subject to change DATASOURCE: CENTURY 21 CONTACT: Corey Thomas of CENTURY 21, +1-973-496-7575, ; or Judith Wint of Weber Shandwick, +1-718-986-5245, , for CENTURY 21 Web site: http://www.century21.com/

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