News Item: Prince Fielder hits inside-the-park homer against Twins
And even worse, Prince's equally obese father, Cecil, on Opening Day in 1996 had his first career stolen base (out of two), also against the Twins, when the throw from catcher Greg Myers deflected off the heel of shortstop Pat Meares (Meares! Stahoviak! Coomer! It's mid-'90s Twins Baseball, only on Fox 29!) Perhaps that connection (coming on Fathers' Day!) will get the Fielder men talking to each other again.
Prince Fielder is listed as weighing 260 pounds in the above article; to borrow an old Bill James joke about his father, that leaves unanswered the question of what Prince would weigh if he put his other foot on the scale.
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 18, 2007 05:16 PMHa, the Cecil Fielder stolen base was the first thing I thought of, too!
The thing is, once Prince hit third base, he really had to just go for the homer, because with that kind of inertia, it would have taken him more than 90 feet to stop.
Posted by: Jeremy at June 18, 2007 11:43 PM