Let's make this birthday one to remember.

50 years old (Born on December 29, 1974)

Happy Birthday to Richie Sexson—baseball’s favorite towering slugger! At 6'8", you always stood tall, launching baseballs into orbit a whopping 306 times. Watching pitchers crane their necks upward as your homers flew out was truly priceless.

From hitting moonshots in Cleveland and Milwaukee to crushing them for Seattle, we marveled at the epic battles of pitcher versus giants. You not only reached amazing heights (literally!), but also earned two All-Star nods along the way.

Richie, while candles atop birthday cakes might seem far below eye-level now—we hope today stacks up among all-time great memories just like those soaring homers did!