DETROIT, UNITED STATES: Detroit Tigers first baseman Cecil Fielder connects with a pitch and drives it over the centerfield wall for a grand slam home run in the fourth inning of Detroit’s 09 April game against the Seattle Mariners at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers scored 10 runs on only four hits in their 10-9 victory over the Mariners. AFP PHOTO/Matt CAMPBELL (Photo credit should read MATT CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images)
Reporting i) Pat Caputo
Cecil Fielder indicated at the time his son, Prince, signed a nine-year, $214 million contract with the Tigers, the widely-reported strained relationship between the two had improved.
That has changed.
At his induction into the Ted Williams Hitters Hall of Fame in Tampa on Friday, Cecil said of his son, in comments that appear on the Tampa Bay Times website: “As a father, of course you’re proud of what your son’s been able to accomplish on the field. But as a father, you also worry about how he is growing as a man. How – and I want to say this correctly – he is communicating with everybody that had something to do with how he got to where he is. As for that part of my son, I think we’re all disappointed.”
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