El dieciséis de enero/January 16th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Albert Pujols (José Alberto Pujols Alcántara)! (1980- ) Photo from piodeportes.com (click HERE ) Baseball player Albert Pujols is a a three-time National League MVP (2005, 2008, 2009), a nine-time All Star (2001, 2003-2010), and a two-time World Series Winner (2006, 2011, both with the Cardinals). After years of playing with the Cardinals, he became a free agent in 2011 and signed a ten-year contract with Los Angeles. It was with them that he hit his 600th home run, on June 3rd, 2017 (click HERE to see - it was a grand slam against the Minnesota Twins). Born in the Dominican Republic and raised mostly by his grandmother, Pujols came to New York City with his father and grandmother in 1996. After Pujols witnessed a shooting in a grocery store, his grandmother decided to move the family to Missouri, where he arrived for senior year of high school speaking little English, but playing an incredible game of base...