Albert Pujols signed 2005 NLDS Hat

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Where were you October 17, 2005?
I was in the suburbs of St. Louis, building cabinets for NL MVP Albert Pujols. The Cardinals were in an NLCS series against the Houston Astros, of which game 5 was starting at 7:28pm that night. Albert was there in the morning when I showed up. He signed this hat right in front of me, handed it to me, and then said, "Ok, I gotta go, I have a plane to catch."
A few hours later Pujols' three run homer off Brad Lidge would become one of the most told stories in baseball history.
As the story goes, Brad Lidge, with a 1.19 postseason ERA, three saves and 9 strikeouts in 8 innings was one out away from closing out the series at Minute Maid park and taking his team to the World Series.
"Our fans were going to storm the field," said Lance Berkman, the Astros' outfielder. "We were on the precipice. It's still unbelievable."
"It's one of those things that people remember where they were when it happened," Pujols said.
Pujols' towering three run homer in the ninth inning rattled the rafters at Minute Maid park and set a crowd of 48,000 silent as a graveyard. While the Cardinals would lose game six at home, Brad Lidge struggled the rest of the postseason. In fact, he would spend three years recovering, before eventually winning a World Series with the Phillies in '08.
As Albert Pujols approaches 700 career home runs, celebrate this unique moment in baseball by owning a piece of the Pujols legacy, this 2005 Division Series fitted cap, designed especially for the 2005 NLDS champion Cardinals, signed by a guaranteed first-round hall of famer in his first MVP season, just hours before hitting one of the most shocking home runs of our Era.