Tbh he’s back with St. Louis now and he’s back with his class of hall of fame. Pujols wainwright and Molina. The three amigos are back together for the ride off into the sunset. My life as a cardinals fan is finally came back. Grew up as a kid watching this team in the 90s on.
I’m probably a few years older than you. Pujols is a couple years younger than me. I feel very similar. If I told y’all the games I’ve been to in my lifetime already I think you’d be extremely jealous or think I’m lying. Let’s all enjoy his final at bats as a baseball player and hope the birds can win one last WS for him.
Man I watched his entire St. Louis career but I can’t remember all of it. I forgot he homered in his first at bat in St. Louis. I guess “storybook” is a word that describes much of his career. Here we are today, Sept 10th, 2022 and he’s writing a storybook ending to his career.
Same here, there but didn’t remember everything. Glad I do a bit more now. Can’t believe how young he looks here. I could swear he’s always looked as he does now. 😂
I'm going to the last home game on the 2nd. Flying from west coast just for one last time to see Albert in person. It'll be my second Busch stadium game. Went to 2006 game 4. Cards win & then win series as I'm flying home. It'll be a wonderful day at Busch to salute Albert. Blessed to get to go & be there in person. Section 145, row 2! I'm calling it on here so there's a record but he's gonna hit number 700 on October 2nd to complete his astonishing storybook career.
On behalf of all fellow Cardinal fans and baseball fans in general, we love you Albert Pujols and it's been a great pleasure watching your hall of fame career unfold before us. Couldn't be more happy to see him come back and retire with Yadi and Wayno in a Cardinals jersey. 700 BABY!
This is like a passing of the torch. McGwire's last season. Lankford who at one time was one of the Cardinals best players and homerun hitters. And here comes El Hombre.
@@dennissvitak148 More strikeouts, true, but in their 10 year primes Pujols had just as many hits and significantly more walks. Pujols had about a hundred more doubles in his best ten years but a hundred less triples. I could see arguments for one over the other but really they are pretty darn similar. Baseball Reference has them as the most similar hitters to one another through their first six years. If Joe didn't miss a few years to WW2 it probably would have been an entire decade.
This was the beginning of the Pujols era in St Louis as well as finally getting out of the gutter within the NL Central Division. So many great memories.. Still so much love for Albert. Hope to see you back where u belong once the Angel days cease.
I miss these late 90s\early 2000s Cardinals teams. Lankford, Edmonds, Pujols, rolen, rentaria, morris, isringhausen, Mcgwire, and lots of others I have fond memories of watching
There was only one other guy that I saw that was as dominant as Albert for that length (11 years) of time, and that was Bonds. Albert, by all accounts, was a better leader and teammate, so that ,in my book, puts him over the top as the greatest player I have witnessed in 45 years of loving baseball.
Bonds was a machine. His ability to read a ball once it left a human arm was incredible. The man definitely didn't need performance enhancements but yeah we get it. I'm glad I grew up to Griffey, Pujols, Bonds etc. I was in love with baseball back then. Watching these clips are making fall in love all over again
Pujols been bad for a long time. Even after steroid testing, Bonds was still the most feared hitter in the game till the end of his career. Manny Ramirez was better than Pujols for a longer period of time. And few others as well. Also, baseball doesn't test for blood doping. So, you really have no idea what Pujols was on.
21 years later, 695 homeruns later, AP is about to close his storybook career in the town where it all started. He’s been fun to watch. Forever and ONLY A CARDINAL!
I was a senior in high school his rookie season who went to many games in 2001 to watch him play, and now I’m a 40 year old family man and father of two, while Pujols is finishing his career back at home with the Cardinals. The quality of the video makes it seem like it was so much longer ago, but it really feels like yesterday when me and my friends were stupid kids in the stands shouting for Pujols and Big Mac to hit a home run our way. Thanks for the upload, it brings back a lot of memories.
Sam, what a story 😊 I live in STL to and watched Albert from the beginning to. If you told me last year he would end his career here, with a chance to hit 700 HR's I would have said you're crazy. Albert is one of the classiest and BEST teammates in ALL of sports. Do you think he gets to 700? Just 3 more HR's, can he do it 🤔
The fact that this game was in Spring of 2001 feels like a literal lifetime ago. I was 7 at the time Pujols hit this bomb, and now I am a month shy of 29 years old. It's beyond physically insane the legacy he's cemented in only 21 years
One of the very few players in any sport and in my lifetime that has completely lived up to the hype. Albert Pujols, Peyton Manning, Lebron James, Messi, Georges St-Pierre, and Roger Federer. Those athletes were very highly thought of before and after their professional careers and lived up to those standards from the start of their careers to the finish.
Wish we had the access we do now to watch any team....I missed alot of his younger years due to the fact that I didn't have cable and fox was a horrible channel to watch only saw him when it matter the post season
Personally, I remember way back in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a small article about how some A-ball kid named Albert Pujols was invited to Spring Training, since Bobby Bonilla got hurt. The rest is history. One can only imagine how things would have gone if Bobby never got hurt. True, eventually Pujols would have made it to the majors, but it's still a storybook beginning.
i completed the series of watching his first and last cardinals homerun, and first and last angels homerun, and first homerun in st louis wearing a angels uniform
Albert Might as well get on the juice for the last couple of months of his career and get to 700. I say it is fair considering he lost 4 mvps to juiced players and should be 3rd on the all time list instead of 5th
2001: the only season when Albert Pujols and Mark McGwire were teammates.
The greatest player of my generation. I feel lucky to have come of age during Albert's prime.
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im very jealous
Same
Tbh he’s back with St. Louis now and he’s back with his class of hall of fame. Pujols wainwright and Molina. The three amigos are back together for the ride off into the sunset. My life as a cardinals fan is finally came back. Grew up as a kid watching this team in the 90s on.
I’m probably a few years older than you. Pujols is a couple years younger than me. I feel very similar. If I told y’all the games I’ve been to in my lifetime already I think you’d be extremely jealous or think I’m lying. Let’s all enjoy his final at bats as a baseball player and hope the birds can win one last WS for him.
Man I watched his entire St. Louis career but I can’t remember all of it. I forgot he homered in his first at bat in St. Louis. I guess “storybook” is a word that describes much of his career. Here we are today, Sept 10th, 2022 and he’s writing a storybook ending to his career.
I'm right there with you. Didn't remember this either.
Same here, there but didn’t remember everything. Glad I do a bit more now. Can’t believe how young he looks here. I could swear he’s always looked as he does now. 😂
I'm going to the last home game on the 2nd. Flying from west coast just for one last time to see Albert in person. It'll be my second Busch stadium game. Went to 2006 game 4. Cards win & then win series as I'm flying home. It'll be a wonderful day at Busch to salute Albert. Blessed to get to go & be there in person. Section 145, row 2!
I'm calling it on here so there's a record but he's gonna hit number 700 on October 2nd to complete his astonishing storybook career.
700!!!!!!!!
@@srbueller a few days off but its all good 😁
On behalf of all fellow Cardinal fans and baseball fans in general, we love you Albert Pujols and it's been a great pleasure watching your hall of fame career unfold before us. Couldn't be more happy to see him come back and retire with Yadi and Wayno in a Cardinals jersey. 700 BABY!
This is like a passing of the torch. McGwire's last season. Lankford who at one time was one of the Cardinals best players and homerun hitters. And here comes El Hombre.
Man, how did he hit that ball out. Thay ball was in on his hands and he pulled his hands in so well. Crazy.
Yeah. I was thinking he got jammed. And he might have a little. But it looks as if he pulled his hands in enough to muscle it out.
It looked like a really high pop up to me off the bat
How? Cause He's Albert. 😂
Cause it's albert pujols enough said
One of the best at keeping those inside pitches from curling foul.
Best combination of power and contact. Ever.
No. Not even close. Joe DiMaggio had 361 home runs, and 369 strikeouts. Pujols is 656 and 1279. Not even close.
@@dennissvitak148 More strikeouts, true, but in their 10 year primes Pujols had just as many hits and significantly more walks. Pujols had about a hundred more doubles in his best ten years but a hundred less triples. I could see arguments for one over the other but really they are pretty darn similar. Baseball Reference has them as the most similar hitters to one another through their first six years. If Joe didn't miss a few years to WW2 it probably would have been an entire decade.
@@dennissvitak148 I think he was talking about batting average...
@@dennissvitak148I’ll take the 703 HRs and double the strikeouts over the 361.
This was the beginning of the Pujols era in St Louis as well as finally getting out of the gutter within the NL Central Division. So many great memories.. Still so much love for Albert. Hope to see you back where u belong once the Angel days cease.
I believe he will
Just look how skinny his is
Finally, he’s home
@@jvseibel Yes & it's Great!!
This aged so goddamn well. Saw him at the ASG and HR derby. his first round was so hype.
Watching this while he's on a tear in 2022 is surreal
What a privilege it was having him as a Dodger. He is a class act
Watching the ole Cards annual playoff runs as a kid/teen was truly something special. That mid 2000’s lineup was a Murderer’s Row
Exactly. With Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, and Walker they were lethal.
@@kevinpayton2664 Reggie Sanders also had a good run during that era.
@@joerapo I forgot about him being on the team.
Fought off an inside pitch to left. That’s some strength
I miss these late 90s\early 2000s Cardinals teams. Lankford, Edmonds, Pujols, rolen, rentaria, morris, isringhausen, Mcgwire, and lots of others I have fond memories of watching
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He's back to where all began, like in the movie.
He hit 697 today. Still crushing lefty pitching.
698 checking in
700!!!!
Fast-forward to now......chasing 700 total homeruns.
I have a good feeling about this kid. I bet he hits 700 homers.
You are correct
I bet he hits 703
💚💚☝️☝️☝️I miss watching Albert.
Ray Lankford sighting!
He was a terrific player with St. Louis.
Greatest right handed batter All time
absolutely one of my all time..... laughing because he made it all the way around faster than he goes from home to first!😛
Albert and old Busch, the good ol days of Cardinal baseball!
Pujols just passed ARod and this was HR what #2 career? Amazing.
I miss old Busch...
There was only one other guy that I saw that was as dominant as Albert for that length (11 years) of time, and that was Bonds. Albert, by all accounts, was a better leader and teammate, so that ,in my book, puts him over the top as the greatest player I have witnessed in 45 years of loving baseball.
Also didn't juice like Bonds did
Yeah he is a true class act! God bless Albert Pujols!
Bonds was a machine. His ability to read a ball once it left a human arm was incredible. The man definitely didn't need performance enhancements but yeah we get it. I'm glad I grew up to Griffey, Pujols, Bonds etc. I was in love with baseball back then. Watching these clips are making fall in love all over again
Pujols, Manny Ramírez, Miguel Cabrera.. the most dominant right-hand hitters
Pujols been bad for a long time. Even after steroid testing, Bonds was still the most feared hitter in the game till the end of his career. Manny Ramirez was better than Pujols for a longer period of time. And few others as well. Also, baseball doesn't test for blood doping. So, you really have no idea what Pujols was on.
21 years later, 695 homeruns later, AP is about to close his storybook career in the town where it all started. He’s been fun to watch. Forever and ONLY A CARDINAL!
Best part? He'll be in the postseason with the team he began his legacy with to close out his final year of his legendary tenure in Pro Baseball
As a St. Louisan, damn I miss Shop-N-Save (3:06)......😂😂🤣🤣 #GOCARDS #PHATALBERT
The more you shop... the more you save.
@@SandwichMan1764 every day at shop n save!
Albert Winnie the Pujols.
You’ll forever be a legend in my household. Thank you for all the amazing memories.
I was a senior in high school his rookie season who went to many games in 2001 to watch him play, and now I’m a 40 year old family man and father of two, while Pujols is finishing his career back at home with the Cardinals.
The quality of the video makes it seem like it was so much longer ago, but it really feels like yesterday when me and my friends were stupid kids in the stands shouting for Pujols and Big Mac to hit a home run our way.
Thanks for the upload, it brings back a lot of memories.
Sam, what a story 😊 I live in STL to and watched Albert from the beginning to. If you told me last year he would end his career here, with a chance to hit 700 HR's I would have said you're crazy. Albert is one of the classiest and BEST teammates in ALL of sports. Do you think he gets to 700? Just 3 more HR's, can he do it 🤔
The fact that this game was in Spring of 2001 feels like a literal lifetime ago. I was 7 at the time Pujols hit this bomb, and now I am a month shy of 29 years old. It's beyond physically insane the legacy he's cemented in only 21 years
I was in preschool when he first played in 2001.
When Albert Pujols started his MLB debut, Mark McGuire was still at his peak. After 2004, McGuire was never the same again.
St. Louis - Let's do this again. Sign Albert again.
Done
One of the very few players in any sport and in my lifetime that has completely lived up to the hype. Albert Pujols, Peyton Manning, Lebron James, Messi, Georges St-Pierre, and Roger Federer. Those athletes were very highly thought of before and after their professional careers and lived up to those standards from the start of their careers to the finish.
Best hitter IVE ever seen
The most dominant rookie season I ever 👀
Just finished with a HR in his last at bat in STL 22 years later.
1 of many homers that Albert hit.
HE'S BACK!
Pujol's 700th career homerun video brought me here.
Se quitó esa bola de encima , sin extender las manos 🔥la maquina
And he now sits at 697 HR's as of 9/11/2022 and will finish with 703 career HR's.
The commentary is foreshadowing without knowing insanity.
That’s a good looking old Busch!
And 700 homeruns later, he is still here.
I sure wish I would have known to get an autograph from him while he was in Memphis
Wish we had the access we do now to watch any team....I missed alot of his younger years due to the fact that I didn't have cable and fox was a horrible channel to watch only saw him when it matter the post season
He's hitten a few more since this
Personally, I remember way back in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a small article about how some A-ball kid named Albert Pujols was invited to Spring Training, since Bobby Bonilla got hurt. The rest is history. One can only imagine how things would have gone if Bobby never got hurt. True, eventually Pujols would have made it to the majors, but it's still a storybook beginning.
Cheers to 700 Albert.
woooo
i completed the series of watching his first and last cardinals homerun, and first and last angels homerun, and first homerun in st louis wearing a angels uniform
Pre 9/11 . . . . Dude has been playing for a long time.
Denny Neagle strugling in Colorado as almost every pitcher who went there by that time
I forgot McGwire and Pujols we're actually teammates too bad they weren't together in their primes.
Congrats on 700
Welcome to the 700 club sir 🐐
So awesome
Love you Albert!
Legend.
Albert Pujols legendary #StLouisCardinals
If he had kept that build,, he might not have had so many lower body problems,, this 700 would be over
More than that. Had he not missed much of 2013, he could be chasing Bonds right now.
So this was his first at bat in Busch Stadium as a cardinal?
Yes
More like St Louis welcome Albert Pujols!
Auspicious start!
22 años y 698 HR Y 2206 RBI despues
2002 was a LOOOOOOONG time ago
Forgot he played with Ray Lankford 🤯
Spoiler: it's a storybook
♥ I miss this man. He will always be a DODGER in my heart ♥.
Glad he never juiced, that would have broken my heart
He looks so young lol
Actually looks old for his age, just a bit younger than now
The best
2001 was a long time ago
Lol. The Viagra sign. Ad placement at it's finest.
700 🤙
So McGwire going out and he coming in?
Like Michael Jordan...When Albert Pujols had hair!
no chance they are picking off ray lankford!
Albert had hair!!-
GOAT Besides Hammerin Hank Aaron and Willie Mays and Babe Ruth. Excluded Bonds
4:31 🧢
Look at Mcguire looking at him.lol
McGwire
Joe Buck there to make it more boring, as always.
2 & 702
Albert Might as well get on the juice for the last couple of months of his career and get to 700. I say it is fair considering he lost 4 mvps to juiced players and should be 3rd on the all time list instead of 5th
Not sure this kid is going to make it.
I'll mark him as "needs further evaluation".
Haha no way Albert was 21. Probably 24 or something
No proof
Who cares?
@@thabeaststl3703 not me. I’m a Cards fan and loved watching him
No much difference than how he looks now
Except like 60lbs