The winner's award of $2,000 doesn't sound like much now but if one adjusts for inflation that amount would be equivalent to almost $16,000 in 2013 dollars. Hank Aaron, due to his success over several contests, earned the equivalent of a bit over $100,000, which isn't too bad for a day's work.
All of the participants wear the uniform of the team they played for. All but one wear their own actual uniform except Ken Boyer, who wears a St Louis Cardinal uniform number 7. He wore number 14 his entire Cardinal career, and the team retired it in his honor.
All 19 players were featured in a special set of Home Run Derby baseball cards, distributed free through American Motors dealers and NBC affiliates. Original cards are now difficult to find but the entire set has since be reprinted in large quantities.
Except for a Major League All Star Game, the 19 participants represent perhaps the greatest on-field collection of power hitters ever. Of the 19 players, ten were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. All had multiple All Star game selections, except Cerv and Post who had one each. (Post was injured and never appeared in an All Star Game.)
All 16 Major League teams at the time were represented, except for the Chicago White Sox. Surprisingly, the historically inept Washington Senators had the most representatives with three, while the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Braves each had two.