![]() Partly because of the shooting, they moved two months later to Independence, Missouri, to join some relatives. Pujols, his father, and his grandmother immigrated in 1996 to Washington Heights in New York City, where Pujols witnessed a shooting at a bodega. Growing up, Pujols practiced baseball using limes for balls and a milk carton for a glove. Pujols often had to take his father home when his father got drunk following games. His father, Bienvenido Pujols, was a softball pitcher who struggled with alcoholism. Pujols was raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, mostly by his grandmother, America Pujols, and 10 of his uncles and aunts.
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