Albert Pujols is a Dominican-American professional baseball player who is also known as the Machine.
He is the first baseman and designated hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Albert Pujols was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, as the only child of Bienvenido Pujols. Like his son, his father is a sportsman and played as a softball pitcher.
However, Bienvenido struggled with alcoholism. Due to this, his son often had to take his father home when he got drunk after games.
Pujols was raised mostly by his grandmother, America Pujols, and 10 of his uncles and aunts. Later in 1996, he, his father, and his grandmother immigrated to Washington Heights in New York City.
However, there, Pujols witnessed a shooting at a bodega. Partly because of the shooting, the family later moved two months later to Independence, Missouri, to join some relatives
