From Memphis to Cooperstown: Pujols’ home run here still echoes decades later

By , Daily Memphian Updated: September 08, 2022 3:11 PM CT | Published: September 06, 2022 3:57 PM CT
<strong>A red stadium chair still sits alone in right field at AutoZone Park. Former Memphis Redbird Albert Pujols hit a 13th-inning walk-off home run to the chair in 2000, which gave the team its first Pacific Coast League championship.</strong> (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

A red stadium chair still sits alone in right field at AutoZone Park. Former Memphis Redbird Albert Pujols hit a 13th-inning walk-off home run to the chair in 2000, which gave the team its first Pacific Coast League championship. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

The Redbirds will commemorate his walk-off home run in 2000 on Saturday, Sept. 10, with a replica of the chair where that Pujols home run landed.

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AutoZone Park Albert Pujols Allie Prescott Stubby Clapp Craig Unger Memphis Redbirds St. Louis Cardinals
Don Wade

Don Wade

Don Wade has been a Memphis journalist since 1998 and he has won awards for both his sports and news/feature writing. He is originally from Kansas City and is married with three sons.


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