Hensley Meulens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hensley Meulens

baseball player

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1967

Place of Birth: Willemstad

Profession: baseball coach, baseball player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hensley Filemon Acasio Meulens (Papiamento pronunciation: ['h?nsli 'm?il?ns]; born June 23, 1967), nicknamed "Bam Bam", is a Curaçaoan professional baseball player and current bench coach for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB).
A native of Curaçao, he played from 1989 to 2000 in MLB, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Korea Baseball Organization.
He was the first Curaçaoan to play in both MLB and the Dominican Professional Baseball League. Career: 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.