http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball ... bles_x.htm


"Their storybook life seemed headed for the happiest of endings — Fielder was traded to the Yankees, eventually retired with career earnings of $47 million in salary alone, and moved his family to the largest, richest mansion in central Florida.


Now, it's all gone.


All the money, the mansion — even the loving family unit.


Fielder is in hiding, with process servers stalking him. He is not in contact with his family, and many attempts by The Detroit News to reach him failed.


Why?




"Gambling caused Cecil Fielder's empire to collapse," said Al Arostegui, the Realtor who sold the Fielders their 50-room palace in Melbourne, Fla., in 1995 for $3.7 million.


"This isn't a story of a hero who went bad, but a hero who got sick. For Cecil, gambling is a disease; it's like a cancer of some sort that ate away his wealth."


Arostegui said the Fielders owe him more than $70,000 in unpaid advertising expenses from his attempts to sell their house for them. Still, he says, "The biggest losers are the Fielders themselves. They had a great dream home, a wonderful life, and now it's all gone."

Damn shame, too... Prince is going to do very well for himself in the league

Cecil was one of my favorite players grwoing up

I liked him too. Quite sad that he dengenerated to this state.

I remember watching Prince take batting practice at about the age of 12 and hitting 400 ft bombs

cecil was a beast

He'll be playing first for the Brewers in September. I guess he'll have to bail ol' dad out of trouble. Too bad. Cec was huge fan favorite in Detroit.

He was always the guy that I thought would be the first to break Maris' record of 61 homers.

Oh well.

Where is he now? You could check the kitchen.