OH, BABY! PIAZZA'S A DAD

Feb/06/07 01:50 PM Filed in: Mike Piazza
February 6, 2007 -- Mike Piazza will have to learn how to change some diapers. Three days ago, he and his wife, Alicia, had a daughter, Nicoletta Veronica. It's the couple's first baby and makes Piazza a first-time dad.

"Mike has wanted kids for a long time and finally found the right woman to do that with," Piazza's agent, Dan Lozano, said yesterday. "And this is definitely a point in his life where he couldn't be in a better place."

Nicoletta weighed in at five pounds, eight ounces and was 19 inches long. Lozano said Piazza called him approximately an hour after the baby was born Saturday morning in New York. According to Lozano, "you could tell he was ecstatic."

Piazza, the 38-year-old former Mets superstar and future Hall of Famer, is headed to A's camp for his first tour with the team. He spent last year with the Padres, hitting .283 with 22 homers and 68 RBIs.

(nypost.com)