Cecil Fielder

 (Mark McGwire, John Olerud, Mo Vaughn, Tino Martinez, Cecil Fielder, Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro were perennial contenders.)  The Big Hurt’s best year came in 1994, when he set career highs in batting average (.353), on-base-percentage (.487), and slugging percentage (.729), and despite being limited to 113 games by the players’ strike, hit 38 home runs and drove in 101 runs.  Thomas’s monstrous slugging percentage that season puts him in a club with guys named Ruth, Gehrig, Williams, Hornsby, and Foxx.

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In the 1990s, baseball fans watched Cecil Fielder clobber home runs from one city to another.  A 3-time All Star, Fielder earned the moniker of "Big Daddy" for his towering shots.  In 1990, he became baseball's first player to hit 50 homeruns in a season since George Foster of the Cincinatti Reds hit 52 in 1977.  But perhaps Cecil's greatest accomplishment was the birth of his son, Prince, in 1984.  Today, the younger Fielder has also earned a reputation for launching explosive long-balls.  In 2006, Fielder hit 28 home runs to break the rookie record for the Milwaukee Brewers and in 2007, he became the youngest player of all-time to hit 50 home runs.  

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