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Pujols Bigger Than the Game

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ISBN-10: 1595552243

ISBN-13: 9781595552242

Edition: 2011

Authors: Scott Lamb, Tim Ellsworth, Thomas Nelson Publishing Staff

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A powerful story of the athleticism and strong faith of Albert Pujols, one of the all-time greatest baseball players.It is for good reason that Albert Pujols routinely tops the list of the greatest players in modern Major League Baseball. Even before turning thirty, Pujols has accrued batting totals that most players only dream of gaining over the course of an entire career.Among all Major Leaguers who ever played the game, Pujols already ranks in the top twenty in batting average, slugging percentage, on'base percentage, and adjusted on'base plus slugging. In simple terms, he is one of the greatest offensive players to in baseball history.Pujols hit 201 home runs in his first five…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 2/20/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Scott Lamb serves as the President of Reformation Press and the Executive Director of the Presbyterian Lay Committee in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a Baptist pastor who has shepherded churches in Alabama, Missouri, and Kentucky. He and his wife, Pearl, have six children. He is the author of Pujols: More than the Game (Thomas Nelson, 2011).

Tim Ellsworth is director of news and media relations at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Tim previously worked as associate editor of the Illinois Baptist and director of news and information at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Tim is the author of God in the Whirlwind: Stories of Grace from the Tornado at Union University. He is also the editor of Baptist Press Sports. He and his wife, Sarah, have three children.

Foreword
From Santo Domingo to Saint Louis
The Highway's Jammed with Broken Heroes
We had Everything But Money
The Baseball Gods were Smiling
Dee Dee
Raising Stock at Maple Woods
More than the Game
Draft-Dodging and Jayhawking
Will it Play in Peoria?
Put Me in, Coach, I'm Ready to Play
Pujols in the Majors
Rookie of the Year
A Time to Laugh, a Time to Cry
Pilgrims Progressing
A National Treasure
Almost
You Shall Raise Up the Foundations
MVP
You will be My Witnesses
That's a Winner!
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Sometimes, It's Pretty Tough
The Steroids Chapter
The Machine
Home is Where the Heart is
Don't be afraid to Believe in Me
Unfinished Business
Appendix Season-by-Season Stats
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index