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Albert Pujols Game Used College Home Run Bat (34")
We've heard of bats being cracked on checked swings, but this cracked <i>aluminum</i> bat breaks new ground (or, more accurately, metal) in legendary cracked-bat stories. No surprise that Albert Pujols is the perpetrator, since the Cardinal wunderkind is as strong as a 20-mule team -- and was so even as a 19-year-old (if his birth certificate can be believed) at Maple Woods Community College in Kansas City in '99, when he hit a ball so hard that a 2-inch section on the barrel on the aluminum shaft split open! One observer said that the sound off the bat was like "a cannon shot." Pujols hit .461 that year with 22 homers 80 RBIs, prompting the Cards to draft him. The black Lousville Slugger TPX-5 BB9 has Pujols' signature "Jose A. Pujols" (his given name is Jose Alberto Pujols) in silver marker on the barrel, grading a 9/10. Other painful markings are present as well, and the handle is taped. This very bat and the homerun that was hit with it have been documented in news articles. A peerless Pujols prize. Comes directly from a Pujols family member.
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