Hensley Meulens

Hensley Filemon Acasio Meulens (born June 23, 1967 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a former Major League Baseball player who played from 1989 to 1998. Hitting home runs left-handed while playing softball as a teenager earned Meulens the nickname "Bam Bam" when his friends compared his power to the Flintstones cartoon character. He was the first Major Leaguer to come from Curaçao (which has since produced other players, including Andruw Jones, Randall ... more

Hensley Filemon Acasio Meulens (born June 23, 1967 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a former Major League Baseball player who played from 1989 to 1998. Hitting home runs left-handed while playing softball as a teenager earned Meulens the nickname "Bam Bam" when his friends compared his power to the Flintstones cartoon character. He was the first Major Leaguer to come from Curaçao (which has since produced other players, including Andruw Jones, Randall Simon, and Jair Jurrjens). When Meulens worked as the hitting coach in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization he often acted both as unofficial team translator for the Indians and Japanese scout for the Pirates because he speaks five languages, English, Spanish, Dutch, Papiamento and Japanese. Hensley Meulens was signed by the Yankees as an undrafted free agent in 1985. While struggling in his first professional season in 1986 with the Gulf Coast Yankees, Meulens would make a splash in 1987 with Single-A Prince William, hitting .300 with 28 HR... less