Video: St. Clair County officials recognize East St. Louis Flyers on championship victory
St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern read a proclamation honoring the East St. Louis High School football team during the board’s Dec. 19, 2022, meeting.
Pujols immigrated with his family to New York in 1996, then moved to the Kansas City suburb of Independence, where his high school coach at Fort Osage, Dave Fry, once called him “a gift from the baseball gods.”