Do Christian athletes seek big-dollar contracts like everyone else?
As contract talks broke down between Albert Pujols and the
Cardinals, St. Louis baseball fans began nervously asking themselves a
host of questions. He's a Cardinal for life, right? He wouldn't go to
Wrigley Field because he likes winning too much, right?
But a
particular group of Cardinals fans—those who share his evangelical
Christian faith—were asking a different kind of question: What does
holding out for the largest contract in the history of baseball say
about Pujols's Christian testimony?
Pujols and his wife, Deidre,
are evangelical Christians. They describe their charity, the Pujols
Family Foundation, as "a faith-based nonprofit organization," and they
participate in Christian events around the city.
