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Cecil Fielder

When the Detroit Tigers took the field at Yankee Stadium on October 3, 1990, for the final game of the regular season, it didn’t feel like a momentous event. Only 13,380 fans were present on a Wednesday night to watch the home team finish the season in last place. The Tigers, who also had a losing record, had secured third place. The eyes of the baseball world, though, were focused on the Tigers’ Cecil “Big Daddy” Fielder, who had one last chance to become the first American League player in 29 years to hit 50 home runs.

Fielder, who was hitless in the first two games of the series, didn’t disappoint, hitting both his 50th and 51st home runs. It was only fitting that he accomplished the feat at the House that Ruth Built. Babe Ruth was the first player to hit 50 home runs in a season and the Yankees’ Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle had been the last AL players to reach that milestone, both doing so in 1961. The last NL player to hit 50 homers was George Foster in 1977. The 13-year drought between 50-home run seasons was the longest such span since Ruth had first h

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Three-time All-Star First Baseman & Designated Hitter Cecil Fielder was one of the most feared sluggers in the American League in the early 1990s. In 1990, when he smashed 51 circuit clouts for the Detroit Tigers, Fielder became the first player in the A.L. to hit 50 home-runs in a season in 29 years, since team-mates Roger Maris (61* (2001)) and Mickey Mantle (54) both accomplished the feat for the World's Champion New York Yankees in 1961. (In those pre-steroid, pre-human growth hormone halcyon days of baseball, George Foster of the National League Cinncinnatti Reds was the only other player to pole 50 dingers, going yard 52 times for The Big Red Machine in 1977).

What was remarkable about Fielder's feat was that it was part of a come-back to the Big Leagues. Fielder had played baseball in Japan after quitting the Toronto Blue Jays, with whom he had appeared in the 1985 American League Championship Series. Coming back with the Tigers, he excelled as a power hitter. Ironically, Detroit's old ball-yard was known as lefty-friendly, with a second-tier of seating o

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MLB Stats for Cecil Fielder

Cecil Grant Fielder was a Major League Baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays (1985-1988), Detroit Tigers (1990-1996), New York Yankees (1996-1997), Anaheim Angels (1998), and Cleveland Indians (1998). Did you know that when Fielder hit fifty-one home runs in 1990, he was only the second player in Tigers history to hit 50-or-more homers in a single season? Do you know who preceded him? [Answer]

Cecil Fielder Rookie Card | 1986 Topps Baseball Card (#386)
Baseball Almanac Research Library

Did you know that Cecil Fielder was the first player in Tigers history to hit three home runs in a game, twice (May 6, 1990 & June 6, 1990) during the same season? Big Daddy also tied the American League record, set previously by only three players in junior circuit history. [Most 3-HR Games In A Season]

Did you know that Cecil Fielder, on August 25, 1990, became one of only four players, and the only Tiger, to hit a home run over the left-field roof at Tiger Stadium (the other three were Harmon Killebrew, Frank Howard and Mark McGwire)?

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