700 Words on Albert Pujols
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When Albert Pujols was 16 years old, he moved from the Dominican Republic to Missouri to be with his father and grandmother. He didn’t know more than five words of English, and the woman who was assigned to be his English tutor at Fort Osage High School did not know five words of Spanish.
Pujols did know one thing. Shortly after arriving, he went down t…