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El Hombre

By Buzz Bissinger

Monday, November 24, 2008

It's the top of the fourth inning of the 136th game of the 2005 season. The Cardinals may be rolling into the playoffs, but the Astros are leading, 1-0. At the plate is Albert Pujols, in his 505th at-bat, and we might as well reveal that nothing epic will take place. No booming home run over Tal's Hill. Not even one of Pujols' patented thunderbolt doubles off the left-field wall. In the annals of Pujols' nearly unprecedented five-year career, this September at-bat is a snowflake in the blizzar ...

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