https://www.mlb.com/cut4/albert-pujols-and-yadier-molina-hug-at-home
Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina hugging at home added a beautiful chapter
to their long friendship
The world was a different place on June 3, 2004. Barack Obama was merely some
state senator from Illinois. The biggest movie to debut that weekend was
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." (The books were years from
concluding.) The Red Sox, Cubs and White Sox were still in the middle of
long championship droughts. And Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols played
together on the Cardinals for the first time.
Pujols was already a star, having finished runner-up for National League
MVP in the previous two seasons, whereas Molina was simply the third of
his brothers to catch in the Majors. The youngest Molina's career surpassed
them both, and thanks in no small part to the feats of Pujols and Molina,
the Cardinals excelled.
No NL team was more successful than St. Louis, as the team captured three
pennants and a pair of World Series rings