and the food there we. announced today on larry king now. larry king now we are in the beautiful diamond overlooks home plate at the polo angel stadium of anaheim and i'm joined by future hall of famer nine time all star three time national league m.v.p. two time golden globe globe when i got to the golden globes of a. world series one of the great players ever to grace a baseball field albert pool halls the only player in history to bat at least three hundred with thirty doubles and thirty home runs and one hundred r.b.i. in his first ten seasons and this year the twenty six player and major league history to hit five hundred home runs when he started you can sort of did you think

you would be a great ballplayer. never in my view and you know that my career was going to take also where. needed thank god first for the opportunity and the ballot in the town that he has given me to play this gaining growing up and then when i grow public all i want it was just an opportunity to play professional baseball did you know you were good i was in the same player down in that they are i was really you know i was really i can compete. better you know i was one of the players that i was fourteen years old when we fifteen sixteen seventeen year old guys you know so i was able to to learn from my mistake and learning quick why did you leave the dome of the family leave my family you know my grandma my dad out me and my dad we were kind of the last on the left the country to come to the united states and nine hundred eighty i believe one nine hundred eighty seven one nine hundred eighty nine might want to land and uncle came to the united states and grew up in the midwest

that's where you are midwest that you told me that once you loved them it was yeah i love it you know obviously gets hot in the cellar. you know playing there for eleven years it was it was really tough weather but you get used to. you manage your mind so she here in california says you're a once in a generation player no doubt the gold standard for dies do in the batter's box in the field of gold gold first place with putting up incredible numbers he loves managing what he thinks might his awesome reminder you know. i'm blessed to have two hall of fame one going into a hole or find the next couple of daytona and live in san louis and coming down to sold in california and my social you know is my monitor's just a blessing you know he's a guy this and when are we to respect thing in the clubhouse and he's he's our leader you know obviously this year showing you know what he told us in spring training coming on right off the gate right now being only two guns out of first

blazing our main goal was to accomplish and hopefully bring the war series room back to the city around what was the hardest part about leaving st louis i think you know leaving my family behind never i was never away from from my family for more than seven or eight days ing i was away from home from them for almost two and a half months before they all can get here to sort of in california so that was tough and it took those about a year and a half. to get used to that and now you know how my whole my whole family here my wife schooling our kids and just the lesson. that she felt the lord just food that on her heart last year she was like you know we need to be where you are and you know i just she just being a leader and. with her hundred percent you know it was somebody that out there again you know when i had a tough night and she's my best friend you know i choose that one kind of pretty

much over myself and just. deal with things that happens in the field and not be able to share that with hange because with her. again because she was in some lawyers in this want to. a lot over there i don't want to wake her of it was tough and now being here she way after again we kind of arrived together back home and just how in the kids are we enjoying that there was a time you thought you'd never leave the midwest yeah there was a time but obviously you know it didn't work out that changes yeah as i sadly i'm getting used to to being here in southern california gray organization gray honor. is very grave we have a great front office and you know we putting a great team out there to hopefully accomplish our goal feel like emerging only. now is. very real is tough yeah you know obviously give you a little way opportunity not to take a full day off but. because you for the game you're on the bench. all

game but it's something that i got used to this year. more than ever first with a ten year contract probably late in the career you will d.h. probably you know are still young only thirty four years old thing obviously i have bought a couple and reason my knee and my heel last year was pretty tough but i'm getting better you put a lot of pressure on yourself. i think everybody pushed pressure you know every time you wear the uniform but i think you work hard for that i love to have on second base with you know getting one wrong base just you know the stuff you don't train is not like you go into a workout room and say ok i'm going to train to try to get the base off the middle way that when you run in it's own then the. you get

a lot of our bats and more spears and you get better and it's almost come natural so it's something that says in the situation so the term clutch hitter. we imagine that the clutch hitter rises to the occasion he likes them and. all the time and i actually like a third baseman more than second base but a fly ball yeah. something that i'm comfortable with doing you know i never put my head down you know you you obviously are going to fill in more and this and this it says that you have to because nobody can batter one thousand five hundred you know the willis is never you know very. when you play baseball you have to understand. because you will fail more than this one another ten times and you know they were buddies say oh and then all the years oh and. you just get more arbaaz and they say you get what do you regularly angels this year have

a great book on the down the wire yeah there was this is getting better and better every year so i think we have a very yeah he's playing great they're always tough you know when we play there you go on your guard and you got texas we know it's going to them for granted we have a great thing i always say if the weakening stay healthy for a whole year then you can see what we are able to do and that's something that we've been doing this year you know we love that you do as well. and of course look at the clubhouse and look at the tiling in the belly i mean we had the best player in the my trower is just amazing you know watching the kids in the field every day you've got josh you've got weaver myself you have a great group or mix of player young player bedroom players know how to winning i was sleep that's what you want in the glove housing boom going has got so much better on starting pitcher now we got so you wilson down for

a couple of ways go whole slew and he comes back he picked it up right away what do you think itself as this is a good two wars and best play and again i mean he's amazing. what he can do in the field and the way that he can be show me he has a he played great the finger re-arm our army they say that he go fight two i think he got ten tools if you had to multiply by two you know it's just like there's a guy. that's the one present the most such a young age you know he don't lay all these media. contract talking all baggage to his head and he says one of the. kids he just home will come from a great family and his goal every day every time he takes stuff ill is to help us up to winning and that's why my ramones think always want to get better no matter this is says they always want to get better we lost only when the issue of the genome i knew for a little bit play

a loggins and when i was going to buy was honor i'm blessed to have the opportunity to playing and this chair this and locker room in two thousand and one his last off target and bang and color it and. he just you know it was not just the league great man and great human being but you know our family too because we you know we were getting pretty close to each other because you know we started talking. a lot and coming to some of my foundation and and things just amazing i had the opportunity was in college to have a baby would say for my coach. he gave me two to start to his swing. you know that i think a lot of his brain would. get it simply be different. but doesn't matter will still when you when you see that career that tony had you know it was just amazing is that you know i always want to pick the brain they gain

a lot of staying inside the ball and little things like that doesn't matter what kind of type or hitter you are you still want to stay inside the ball let the board travel thing that's how you're going to more morsi says in this game but he had a great career. he was a better person off the field did you get to know derry jeter all there playing i guess saying over the years this all season i got to go to his golf tournament and . never had a problem it is amazing just somebody you know the respect they getting he says is the captain he's going to be miss you know on this year. playing against the yankees in the on scene number two in short it's going to be tough we had a mutual friend i loved him stan musial. one of those i saw in the brooklyn he killed us he was the best or i was so because we were national league fans so i didn't get to see ted williams much would you think of him as he was amazing person

just amazing still there's no he's alive you know that things that he was still doing for the studio someone who is just a great role model for everybody and. you know just a kid never watched a cardinal play and i got to the big league in two thousand when i started people who started throwing the name same usual part of myself. you know i was like a man there's only one man in this can be on the stand you sure you know just like this a great human being i have the opportunity to be around and. a lot of time i wish you know i could have pick his brain a little way more but obviously because that things that he was going through it was pretty tough for him and to stay around camp too many many events for my foundation and that was some years that i would never forget and you. do you ever doubt you'll say never i mean on even when bad things happen you know because

that's the man the man thing you know when you know. the lord has taught me so much in my career when even my first year of movements and sound was here i mean what i went through and how tough it was and yeah big contract got me big year for me hitting a home run my first six weeks so the seizing it was rough and i was looking myself and i was like you know i trust you you know me from sound to coming into solving california for raising i don't know why but i just rush you with everything and look at my year still and they don't hit it on wrong and a pro they don't hit a home in september and i still got one hundred. seven honoring a r.b.i. i hate to eighty eight to eighty five and thirty homers you know so i imagine the two months that i didn't hear any homers i would have still broken he had a forty plus omer's and. thirty more years i think he was testing me there were tests you know eyeing and something you know you just need to make sure that the

end of the day who you represent when you take the field and somebody that he has to take me to a level that i feel you know trust and come to willing no matter what kind of challenge comes in my way i go to the lower embrace with my family and that's how we can this is one of the signs when we come back and ask about what's so special about the limits and look. at this.

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the status quo but one night the real alternatives are points on the hill looking towards the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes problems for. that with the great albert this afternoon it's. just a tuesday have to leave the angels are about to take on the very good oriel to board first place in the eastern division. nineteen teams still playing. so i believe what is it the water in the dominican republic they do somewhat. out of proportion to the population duminy to succeed in the majors maybe their plants and their food there we. know i don't know they don't crummy feels right yeah

definitely the rocks that's how i grew it's getting better organization and every organization investing a lot of money in their minor league system and down in the car but they give us pitchers infielders of those long balls he was singles of his. spirit special spree oppressions across the american republic my country is. you know something. they're the cation obey school you know the good coaches that i think they're great caution i'm a you go in winter league is nothing you are better than one or more you know you being in the final and they were and i were doing this is people playing the music and it's allowed it's feel like. playing when you're laid down and never had the opportunity by seeing gains as almost like playing them a spear every day do you go home at all do you go back to them and definitely every year at the end of the season and run november i always take

a trip with my foundation the post family foundation what is that what is it do we do a lot of work with kids with down syndrome as you know i have a daughter with his her name is isabella you know since two thousand and one when i was in some way. together with down syndrome association i started my foundation in two thousand and five five or five. i were number five so that was a great year for us and two thousand and six we started making our first mission trip down to the d.r. we take doctors dentists and we start different programs now in the dominican republic go within us and we may hear the answers oh yeah every year every year i mean from two thousand and five to now in the programs that we have there they just amazing you know now we know only working in one community now we've been working growing about five six different community are on the d.v.r. and that's something that that was our growing i can think are our friends and people that support our foundation and off you know we because if it wouldn't be

for them we wouldn't be where in my district down the halls you gave him she's sixteen i have five i have a sister your older isabella a.j. . who's thirteen and i got sophia who say ezra was for twenty two months yesterday so that it. for now. always wanted a big family. so the first borns had done some dance and the juicy would have to leave others and you know what it was something that. was so special she had taught me so much in my life too and being around these kids to me that's my passion if you go to my website pools family foundation or you see all the events that we do with those kids. you know while been doing the last three

year we spent our foundation now we're here and sold in california and nashville. kansas cd in our goal is to try to continue to do that you know helping we have a kid here who is working at this stage and now we set a program that every mega stadium is going to provide jobs for a kid with down syndrome i mean. push that through to magically base when they partner with us the sharing is amazing is the whole family foundation the foundation dot all of our family foundation that or the baseball things in the world segment with a lot of questions from viewers and so musial one said that he could have. ten straight at bats i've got a hit that did not affect the eleven the back to the passed out you do that the saying i think you know you're going to break heaters let me go cabrera mind. you know that's how i was supposed to be you know you can take that bad weather it

was positive with the base and take it to the next one it's like one day at a time one are bad times and one thing that i have that tony la russa me was a bad is you lies about your career in every bad state like this again seven zero there were serious and i believe that since you've been won in two thousand and one it has helped me with this it says that i have so i give a lot of credit to tony even now he doesn't like to take any credit but you know he told me that on all the time that he'd tell me was what do you prefer to hit three hundred. thirty homers saying obviously you know homers is that thing on say thirty is like a routine mistake if you had three hundred you're going to have you share homer. and you're going to morrow for two in a do you want to help this ball club because you want to come through with the bases and score that grown from second base so they're basing something you know as

a rookie you don't know that but the quicker that i learned the better it was for me to understand other sports yeah i love golf i log off. more of i call it more than i'm a i'm a huge fan of them be a to. really go off they will play football you know off my coaching high school is pushing me really really really bad and they're going to tie them. just something that. that i didn't like much as we have some social media questions the world of social media bobby who are already doing are on facebook the size winning the world series what great accomplishment deal it forward to next three thousand hits or six hundred home runs. well that's a great question i would say you know three thousand hits something is really really hard to do. you have to really has a grace he says and his love for

a slender. grace he says and then also a long career to be able to accomplish that but i can take either or you know obviously but three thousand and we say something that i love both the great. holes five via twitter the. line and you hit a home run do you enjoy standing there in admiring the fact that you just scratched the ball. think. you know if is a long homer or their mom always determine you know what you're going to do if is a game when you're home or obviously something doesn't happen every day but you enjoy it every time you hit a home or because you know all the fans come to see that you know sometimes when you're myra don't like week i watch a lot oh my are. the weights sometimes it's a double you know you have to respect they'll decide to i think there comes a moment where you can do it and there are some other moment that you had to

respect the other side because you got short sighted players and you show the picture too you know. so you don't do that you know oh yeah you know there's sometimes. none there were as bad i think everybody in this this arena ruis what's the best and worst part about living in southern california where you like the best about the best hair and you can't wait for the worst i don't think there are worse things that are i would say that traffic but they're not are you know hey you know i'm hearing ana and so the traffic is not as bad at three or four if you were a professional ballplayer what would you do. if i want them professional baseball. i was saying you know continue to do my my engine in your words you know i want to go to school and being in the reserve major in that was something that i want to know we play a little game of if you only knew just out of nowhere you mother the first of the kissed yeah it was the name i chanted done in the.

room intro no. i was twelve it's late now yeah that was twelve favored city besides and i'm to play in the size on a dime to play sound was a great play great town least favorite city to go to. always a walkie you know just very boring. ballpark with the best facilities bizarre hours i was a junkie state and the new youngest there and it's pretty awesome city with the toughest fans philadelphia for sure. for sure philly a super power you'd like to have super power and i do have the speed i was. going to be faster proudest moment proudest moment. just given my life to the lord was a major league baseball rule you'd like to change i was. i

don't know maybe that bog move on the camera or to second base right. or now you can bug to third base if you don't throw the ball or you don't have the first and third move. so i would say that about. the biggest prankster in the locker room. oh you mean intro and i mean is there a guy who makes fun with those little tricks and yeah there's free we go by you guys but who's the quietest teammate they acquire his team. i would say josh. you know his require funniest teammate funny steamy. gary rich or maybe it's because. sometimes you tell him something he forgets right

away. you know you know that's gonna pre-game ritual. you just go meaning. my routine a little bit of fruit and you know now much i don't like to that much food to go is there a song you can't get out of the hit song that i think i got many many songs that i listen listen christian music so that's kind of my routine every day around sixty six twenty five i like to put my headphones in and just lies to worship music secret talent secret talent i don't think i have any secrets now and i think. that i got terrible saying and most every year whatever you want to know my kid most embarrassing moment on the field. i think it was one tying i was going for four and i kind of following my not my head and i always got away so i will blame the weather for that one. what keeps you up at night. you know they gang

you know we show would have done this but i've been the beauty then there for my kids are awake forget about what's happening on the feeling it's time to be with your family. and biggest adjustment when you moved to the united states. i would say learn how to speak english i mean i was you know i took me four months almost to still go to school and no knowing any english it was really rough. i'm still learning. being amazing i want change i think there are two kinds of angels and he is both a person albert thank you so much of the laws of the los angeles and always much so much to say yeah i mean. thanks for joining us on this edition of larry king see.

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