"Cecil Fielder has accomplished something four Tigers Hall of Famers have not. He was inducted into the Ted Williams Hitters Hall of Fame on Friday night at Tropicana Field along with slugger Tino Martinez, with whom he won a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996.

Tigers Ty Cobb, Hank Greenberg and Harry Heilmann were in the original 20-man group Williams selected in 1995. Al Kaline was chosen by the Splendid Splinter in 1999.

But Charlie Gehringer, former Williams teammate George Kell, Mickey Cochrane and Sam Crawford -- all Tigers Cooperstown inductees -- are not among the 64 in the shrine started by perhaps the greatest hitter ever and carried on by those who have run his museum and award since his death in 2002."