Alicia and Mike Piazza Photo by: SONIA MOSKOWITZ-GLOBE
Baseball's Mike Piazza Becomes a Dad | Mike Piazza
Oakland A's catcher Mike Piazza and wife Alicia welcomed their first child, a daughter, on Saturday.

Nicoletta Veronica Piazza was born at 4:07 a.m. in New York City. She weighed in at 5 lbs., 8 oz. and measured 19 inches long.

"Both baby and mother are doing fine," Piazza's rep, Josh Goldberg, said in a statement to PEOPLE.

A onetime star hitter for the New York Mets, Piazza, 38, married the former Alicia Rickter, 34, a Baywatch alum, in a candlelit ceremony in Miami on Jan. 29, 2005.
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