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Either one or two games remain in the 2011 baseball season, one or both of which will be played in St. Louis, one or both of which will carry the wrenching tensions that have defined this energizing and surprising World Series. And most importantly, for all the thrills and excitement of true October baseball, they will also carry the specter of the unspeakable: the nervous reality that Albert Pujols may have 48 hours or less left in his career as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.

As much as Pujols has attempted to deflect attention -- from his stature, from his personality, from his impending free agency -- he is simply too good a baseball player to go unnoticed. He is the undercurrent that roils just under the surface, barely...

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