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JUPITER, Fla. — The stretch of Interstate 70 that runs through the city of St. Louis is apparently going back to its old name.
On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate approved a measure that would change the designation of that stretch of road back to the “Mark Twain Highway.” It was renamed the “Mark McGwire Highway” in 1999 after McGwire’s record-breaking 70-home run ’98 season.
The bill was introduced as Senate Bill 841, and it also includes provisions to name three additional stretches of Missouri highway for Dave Sinclair, Johnny Lee Hays and police officer Ernest M. Brockman Sr.
“If it turns out that they do [change the name], I was honored to have it for 10 years,” McGwire told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Tuesday.
The Missouri House must also approve the measure before it goes into effect.
Yadier B. Molina (born July 13, 1982 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a MLB player who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Molina is only the third catcher to play in two World Series before age 25, along with Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra. He is widely considered one of the best defensive catchers in all of baseball. In his young career, Molina has thrown out 55% of runners attempting to steal, and has led major league catchers in pickoffs.
Molina made his debut with the Cardinals during their pennant-winning season of 2004, backing up Mike Matheny. Matheny served as a mentor to Molina, and like Matheny, Molina is an outstanding defensive catcher. Molina was picked over Matheny to start Game 4 of the 2004 World Series against the Boston Red Sox and during the following off-season, Matheny signed a 3-year, $10.5-million contract with the San Fransico Giants, clearing the way for Molina to become the starting catcher for St. Louis.
In 2005, Molina’s defense did not disappoint, and despite an awful offensive start, Molina proved to be a consistent contact hitter. In 114 games, he posted a .252 batting average with eight home runs and 49 RBI’s.
Prior to the 2006 season, Molina changed his number from 41 to 4. In 2006, in Game 7 of the NLCS, Molina hit a two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning off Aaron Heliman of the New York Mets, giving the Cardinals a 3-1 lead and helping them secure a trip to the 2006 World Series, where they defeated the Detroit Tigers in five games.
After the 2006 postseason, Molina proved to be both a good defensive and offensive player in the 2007 season ending the season with a .275 batting average, 6 home runs, and 40 RBIs. He enjoyed a two home run game for the first time in his career against the Milwaukee Brewers, helping the Cardinals beat the Brewers 8-0, in Milwaukee on August 16, 2007.
Molina is primarily known for his defensive play. Through the 2007 season Molina has thrown out 50% of those runners attempting to steal while he is behind the plate. Manager Tony Larussa and pitching coach Dave Duncan estimate that Molina is responsible for calling over 75% of all pitches thrown during a game. On January 14, 2008 it was announced that Molina and the Cardinals had agreed to a 4-year, $15.5 million deal with a club option for a fifth, cementing his position as their catcher of the future. After the 2008, Molina was awarded his first Gold Glove Award.
On July 5th, 2009, after holding off Braves catcher Brian McCann, Molina was selected to represent St. Louis in the 2009 All Star Game as the NL starting catcher.
On November 11th, 2009 Molina won his second Gold Glove award with first time winner teammate Adam Wainwright
Albert Pujols was born on January 16th, 1980 and was raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Today we will take a look at the town Albert called home for the first 16 years of his life.
Santo Domingo, or Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 2,253,437 in 2006. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River. Founded by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Santo Domingo came to be known as the “Gateway to the Caribbean”. It lies within the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.; “National District”), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Santo Domingo bore the name “Ciudad Trujillo”, after the country’s dictator, from 1930 to 1961.
The most important tourist destination of the city is the Zona Colonial or Colonial Zone, on the western bank of the river and facing the Caribbean Sea. To the west of the Zona Colonial lies Gazcue, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, filled with old Victorian houses and tree-lined streets. The city’s waterfront George Washington Avenue, knows as “El Malecon,” borders the Caribbean Sea and attracts many tourists because of its hotels, casinos, palm-lined boulevards and monuments. Surrounding the Gazcue area you will find the Palacio Nacional (seat of the Dominican government), the National Theater, the Museums in the Plaza de la Cultura, and the Palace of Fine Arts.
In the central part of western Santo Domingo lies the economic and commercial heart of the city, in an area known as the “Poligono Central” and delimited by the 27 de Febrero, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Maximo Gomez avenues. This high-income area remains rather unexplored by tourists, despite offering most of the best dining and shopping available in the city. Many of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods surround the city’s two main parks, the Parque Mirador Sur in the South and the Jardin Botanico in the North.
In the less developed Oriental Santo Domingo you will find other major monuments and tourist spots, such as Columbus’s Lighthouse, where the explorer’s remains are buried, the open caves of the Parque Nacional Los Tres Ojos, and the National Aquarium.
This all makes of Santo Domingo a cosmopolitan, vibrant and bustling city with very distinct neighborhoods and ambiances, all worth a visit, and providing the most diverse cultural experiences
Take a drive around Santo Domingo by watching this vid!
Albert and his family immigrated to the States in 1996.
