CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC Announces Grand-Prize Winner of 2006 CENTURY 21(R) Home Run Derby(R) All-Star Sweepstakes

PITTSBURGH, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC, the "Official Real Estate Organization of Major League Baseball," truly brought it home for James Sparks of Irvine, Ky., awarding him $250,000 toward the purchase of a home in the eighth annual CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby All-Star Sweepstakes.

Sparks became the lucky recipient of this grand prize on Monday, July 10, following the 2006 CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby competition in Pittsburgh.

Randomly selected from entries received through http://www.century21.com/, http://www.century21espanol.com/, in-office displays and mail-in entry forms, the eight finalists were each paired with a Major League Baseball player competing in the 2006 CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby competition. Through three elimination rounds, the eight sluggers battled for the 2006 CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby title.

In the end, with 23 home runs, Ryan Howard, first basemen with the Philadelphia Phillies took the title, winning Sparks $250,000 toward the purchase of a new home.

"The excitement in the ball park during the CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby was unbelievable," said Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Jason Bay. "The performance of Ryan Howard and the excitement of James Sparks made it a night that baseball fans will always remember. Thanks to CENTURY 21, every baseball fan was a winner tonight."

In addition, for the second consecutive year, CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC and Major League Baseball included a "gold ball" charitable element to the CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby competition. For every home run that CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby participants hit during the competition with the commemorative CENTURY 21 Gold Ball, CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC and Major League Baseball combined to donate $21,000 to their respective official charities, Easter Seals and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

Collectively, the eight CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby batters recorded 14 qualifying "gold ball" home runs generating a $294,000 charitable donation.

About CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC

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 more than 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 .

About Major League Baseball Properties

The Major League Baseball Clubs formed Major League Baseball Properties (MLBP) in 1966 as the Club's agent for marketing and trademark licensing and protection. Major League Baseball Properties is responsible for managing consumer licensing activities, developing national advertising campaigns, cultivating sponsorship opportunities with major consumer brands and corporations, growing the game and the business of baseball outside the United States and creating national marketing programs in conjunction with Clubs, broadcast rightsholders and national sponsors. MLBP also operates a full-service video and audio production unit (Major League Baseball Productions), a publishing division and stock photo licensing agency, and manages logistics for the All-Star Game and World Series as well as all other special events. For more information on Major League Baseball, log on to http://www.mlb.com/.

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.