Albert Pujols: One of Professional Baseball's Greatest Players of All-Time, Now with the Los Angeles Angels Shares His 'I Am Second' Story (VIDEO)

 


 

Professional baseball player Albert Pujols has become one of the best baseball players of all time but has been through a lot in his life.  He grew up in a very poor section of the Dominican Republic and has raised a daughter with down syndorme and started the Pujols foundation in 2005 to help children with the same battles.  

Pujols shares his powerful story on 'I Am Second' (above) how he gave his life to the Lord and became a Christian. He talks about how his life has changed and he has done a 360 with his life.

"Albert Pujols grew up watching his father play softball in the Dominican Republic. He would sit next to him on the team bus travelling from town to town pitching for the local team. But never did Albert dream that, one day, he would find himself rising to become one of Major League Baseball's greatest players. Drafted 402nd in the thirteenth round by the St. Louis Cardinals, he doubted whether baseball would even be in his future. People said he wouldn't make it, that he would end his career in the minors. But after only a year in the farm leagues, Albert embarked on a storied career with the St. Louis Cardinals. The nine time MLB All-Star became the only player in history to produce 30 homeruns and 100 RBI's each year for the first ten years of his career and was elected Player of the Year three times. Along the way, he discovered something much more important than winning 2 Gold Glove Awards or the Player of the Decade Award by Sports Illustrated. Albert found the answer to the question he now asks everyone he meets at first base: What is the most important thing in life?" (via I Am Second).

Some of you may have seen the black and white billboards along the streets of 'I Am Second' with some celebrities picture in your town.  If you go to church, maybe the pastor or a friend has mentioned that you check out their website.  What really is I Am Second and why did it start?  

Here is a piece of what they say on their website: "I am Second is a movement meant to inspire people of all kinds to live for God and for others. Actors. Athletes. Musicians. Business leaders. Drug addicts. Your next-door neighbor. People like you. The authentic stories on iamsecond.com provide insight into dealing with typical struggles of everyday living. These are stories that give hope to the lonely and the hurting, help from destructive lifestyles, and inspiration to the unfulfilled. You'll discover people who've tried to go it alone and have failed. Find the hope, peace, and fulfillment they found. Be Second." 

This organization started, bottom line, because everyone is in need of help.  Everyone has different addictions, bad habits and hurtful tendencies that are in need of change.  'I Am Second' wants to shed the light on our pains to not only show that everyone struggles, but to also point to the one who we can lean on in those times (and in all times), God.  Life is hard, and trying to control everything and everyone in your life is only going to wear you down and defeat you. 

'I Am Second' started to give positive hope and change.  Not only do they have the website with dozens of interviews from famous athletes and celebrities, but they encourage people to get involved where ever they are at.  On their website there are opportunities to volunteer, start up or join a community group or even to help people recover from serious addictions.  Remembering to put God first, means that "I Am Second".  They have found that it is the best way to live and maybe you will too.