"When he was introduced as the Tigers' new slugging first baseman Thursday, Prince Fielder had trouble recalling every detail about the seven years of his childhood spent in Detroit.

He couldn't remember which of the Grosse Pointes he lived in from 1990 to '96, when his dad, Cecil, was the Tigers' slugging first baseman. It was Grosse Pointe Farms.

And the school he attended? Someone helped jog his memory. Giving Tree Montessori on Detroit's east side."