Albert Pujols

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. He was also the MVP of the 2004 National League Championship Series, helping his team reach the World Series, where they were swept by the Boston Red Sox.
. In addition, Pujols was also named to grace the cover of EA Sports' video game, MVP Baseball 2004. He has been awarded honorary degrees from several US and European Universities. For 2004, Pujols was nagged by hamstring problems, but was still a powerful hitter, hitting .331 with 46 home runs and 123 RBI. Apart from his Nobel Prize, Wałęsa received several other international prizes.

Pujols also finished second in the MVP voting, but lost that award to Barry Bonds. A month later, Wałęsa went to the U.S., representing Poland at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan. In the 2003 season, Pujols had his best season yet, batting .359 with 43 home runs and 124 RBIs, winning the National League batting title, but the Cardinals failed to make the playoffs, faltering in the stretch to the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central. There was some controversy if the name should be spelled Lech Walesa (without diacritics, but better recognizable in the world) or Lech Wałęsa (with Polish letters, but difficult to write and pronounce for foreigners). The Cardinals defeated the Diamondbacks in the first round of the playoffs, but lost to the San Francisco Giants in the NL Championship series. His signature has been incorporated into the airport's logo. The Cardinals finished first in the NL Central during a difficult campaign that saw the death of team announcer Jack Buck and the sudden death of pitcher Darryl Kile. In May 10, 2004, the Gdańsk international airport has been officially renamed to Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport to commemorate the famous Gdańsk citizen.

In 2002, Pujols struggled early as pitchers learned to pitch to him, but Pujols continued to bat well throughout the season, hitting .314 with 34 homers and 127 RBIs. From that time on he has been lecturing on the history and politics of Central Europe at various foreign universities. For the season, Pujols batted .329 with 37 home runs and 130 runs batted in and was named the National League Rookie of the Year. After that Wałęsa again claimed his political retirement. Pujols continued with his phenomenal rookie season, helping the Cardinals earn a Wild Card berth in the playoffs. Wałęsa again stood for the presidential election in 2000, but he received less than 1% of votes. By June, he was named to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game by NL manager Bobby Cox, the first Cardinal rookie named to the team since 1955. The real leader of the party and its main organizer was a new Solidarity Trade Union leader, Marian Krzaklewski.

By May, he was named National League Rookie of the Month. However, his support was of minor significance and Wałęsa held a very low position in this party. In the season's second series, playing against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Pujols hit a home run, three doubles and eight runs batted in, securing his spot on the team. In 1997 Wałęsa supported and helped to organize a new party called "Solidarity Electoral Action" (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność) which won the parliamentary elections. However, an injury to bench player Bobby Bonilla freed up a roster spot, and Pujols played on Opening Day against the Colorado Rockies in Denver. After that he claimed to go to "political retirement", but he was still active, trying to establish his own political party. Drew. Wałęsa lost the 1995 presidential election.

During spring training in 2001, the Cardinals were preparing for Pujols to join the Major League ranks, but the Cardinals' roster was already full of talented players, including Mark McGwire, Fernando Viña, Edgar Rentería, Ray Lankford, Jim Edmonds and J.D. However, during his presidency Poland was completely changed, from an oppressive communist country under strict Soviet control and with a weak economy to an independent and democratic country with a fast growing free-market economy. In just seven games with the Redbirds in 2000, Pujols hit .367 with two home runs. His style of presidency was however strongly criticized by most of the political parties, and he lost most of the initial public support by the end of 1995. Louis farm clubs, first at the Potomac Cannons in the high-A Carolina League and then with the Memphis Redbirds in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. During his presidency he started so called "war at the top" which practically meant changing the government annually. Pujols quickly progressed through the ranks of the St. On December 9, 1990 Wałęsa won the presidential election to become president of Poland for the next five years.

By 2000, Pujols was assigned to the Peoria Chiefs of the single-A Midwest League, where he was voted league MVP. Poland, while still a communist country in theory, started to change its economy to the free market system. However, by the end of the summer of 1999, the Cardinals had increased their bonus offer to $60,000 and Pujols signed with the Cardinals and was assigned to the developmental leagues. After that agreement, to the big surprise of the Communist Party, the parliament chose Tadeusz Mazowiecki for prime minister of Poland. However, Pujols initially turned down a mere USD $10,000 bonus and opted to play in the Jayhawk League in Kansas instead. At the end of 1989 he persuaded leaders from formally communist ally parties to form a non-communist coalition government, which was the first non-communist government in the Soviet Bloc. Louis Cardinals became interested in Pujols, eventually drafting him in the 13th round of the 1999 draft. While technically just a Chairman of Solidarity Trade Union at the time Wałęsa played a key role in Polish politics.

The St. Formally it was just an advisory body, but practically it was a kind of a political party, which won parliament elections in 1989 (Opposition took 48% of seats in the Sejm out of 49% that were subject of free elections and all but one seats in the newly re-established senate; the remaining 51% of seats were given automatically to Communist Party according to the Round Table agreements). In his first season with the community college, Pujols showed off his talent, hitting a grand slam and turning an unassisted triple play in his first game and batting .461 for the year. In 1989 Wałęsa organized and led the Citizenship Committee of the Chairman of Solidarity Trade Union. After high school, Pujols attended Maple Woods Community College in the Kansas City area. During the talks the government signed an agreement to re-establish the Solidarity Trade Union and to organize "half-free" elections to Polish parliament. In the U.S., Pujols gained his love for baseball, batting over .500 in his first season of high school baseball. Wałęsa was an informal leader of the "non-governmental" side during the talks.

Born in poverty in the Dominican Republic, Pujols's family emigrated to the United States in the early 1990s, first to New York City and then later to Independence, Missouri. After eighty days the government agreed to enter into round-table talks in September. . In 1988 Wałęsa organized an occupational strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, demanding only the re-legalisation of the Solidarity Trade Union. On August 31st of that year, he became the first Major League player since Ted Williams to reach the 100 RBI mark in each of his first five seasons. From 1987 to 1990 Wałęsa organized and led the "half-illegal" Temporary Executive Committee of Solidarity Trade Union. On August 5th, 2005, Pujols became the first player in Major League history to hit 30 or more home runs in each of his first five seasons. Wałęsa donated the prize money to the Solidarity movement's temporary headquarters in exile (in Brussels).

In recent years he has also become an above-average defensive player at first base. He was unable to receive the prize himself, fearing that the government would not let him back in, so his wife Danuta Wałęsowa received the prize in his place. He is widely regarded as one of the best offensive players in the game, able to consistently hit for average and power. 1983 also saw Wałęsa being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Louis Cardinals. While formally treated as a "simple worker", he was practically under house arrest until 1987.
José Albert Pujols (born January 16, 1980 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball player with the St. In 1983 he applied to come back to Gdańsk Shipyard to his former position as a simple electrician.

Each players's first four years are averaged together:. He was interned for 11 months in south-eastern Poland near the Soviet border until November 14, 1982. Only Ralph Kiner hit more homeruns (215) at this age (25) than Albert (190). Wałęsa kept this position until December 1981, when Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of martial law. Became first player in MLB history to hit 30 home runs in each of his first five seasons, 2005. The Strike Coordination Committee legalized itself into National Coordination Committee of Solidarność Free Trade Union, and Wałęsa was chosen as a chairman of this Committee. Pujols has finished in the top five in the voting for MVP of the National League every year of his career, including three runner-ups. In September of that year, the Communist government signed an agreement with the Strike Coordination Committee to allow legal organization, but not actual free trade unions.

3-time Silver Slugger (2001, 2003-04). Several days later he stopped workers who wanted to leave Gdańsk Shipyard, and persuaded them to organize the Strike Coordination Committee (Międzyzakładowy Komitet Strajkowy) to lead and support the naturally occurred general strike in Poland. 4-time All-Star (2001-05). The strike was spontaneously followed by similar strikes across Poland. NLCS MVP, 2004. In August 14, 1980, after the beginning of an occupational strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard, Wałęsa illegally scaled the wall of the Shipyard and became the leader of this strike. TSN Player of the Year, 2003. He was arrested several times in 1979 for organizing an "anti-state" organization, but not found guilty in court and released at the beginning of 1980, after which he re-entered the Gdańsk shipyard.

Hank Aaron Award, 2003. In 1978, together with Andrzej Gwiazda and Aleksander Hall, he organized the illegal underground Free Trade Union of Pomerania (Wolne Związki Zawodowe Wybrzeża). Rookie of the Year, 2001. Due to his being on an informal blacklist, he couldn't find another job and lived at the time thanks to his friends' personal help. In 1976 Wałęsa lost his job in Gdańsk Shipyard for collecting signatures for a petition to build a memorial for the killed workers. After the bloody end of the strike, resulting in over 80 workers killed by the riot police, Wałęsa was arrested and convicted of "anti-social behaviour", spending one year in prison.

He was a member of the illegal strike committee in Gdańsk Shipyard in 1970. In 1969 he married Danuta Gołoś, and the couple now have eight children. Lenina, now Stocznia Gdańska) as an electrical technician in 1967. He attended primary and vocational school, before entering Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk (Stocznia Gdańska im.