Hensley Meulens
Hensley Filemon Acasio Meulens (born June 23, 1967) is a Dutch former professional baseball player and current hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants, from Curaçao. He played from 1989 to 2000 in Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Korea Baseball Organization. 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 as Japanese scout for the Pirates because he speaks five languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Papiamento and Japanese.
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.
Over the course of his career, Meulens would become the first to play for all four of the major Caribbean winter leagues.
Read more about Hensley Meulens: Early Career (1985–1993), Career As A New York Yankee (1989–1993), Japan (1994–1996), Back To America (1997–2002), International Competition, Coaching Career, Personal Life