What a class act

He is deemed to be the best hitter in Major League Baseball. He is probably perhaps one of the best players of all time but what I find attractive about him is his service to people.

Albert was born in Santo Domingo and raised by his grandmother. When Pujols was a young boy, he first displayed his passion for baseball by going to dirt fields to play. Pujols and his family immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic in 1996, first to New York City. In the U.S., Pujols displayed his skill of hitting by batting over .500 in his first season of baseball at Fort Osage High School in Independence, Missouri. He hit .660 with eight home runs his final year of high school. At Fort Osage, Pujols earned all-state honors in baseball twice. Pujols graduated from high school in December 1998. He went on to attend college in the Kansas City area during the spring of 1999.

Few big league teams were very interested in Pujols. Not to bore you with the stats but his were unbelievable and he quickly became a club favorite. But it wasn't his stats that really interested me. It was his attitude and all around personality. He is a class act.

In 2005, Albert and Diedre Pujols launched the Pujols Family Foundation, which is dedicated to "the love, care and development of people with Down syndrome and their families," as well as helping the poor in the Dominican Republic. Pujols has taken several trips to the Dominican, by taking supplies as well as a team of doctors and dentists to the poor who need medical care. The Pujols Family Foundation also holds an annual golf tournament in which members from the Cardinals and other people play golf to raise money to send dentists to the Dominican Republic.

Pujols and his wife are active Christians; his foundation's website states, "In the Pujols family, God is first. Everything else is a distant second."

We have had the opportunity to see the Cardinals play many, many times over the past few years and although Albert is good........

Yadier is my favorite!! (had to get that in here somewhere)