He was born Jose Alberto Pujols, the name given to him by his mother because she liked the sound of it. As a child, he chose baseball. Baseball chose him too. When a person is the only person you can imagine them to be, when he does what he does and becomes what he becomes, then in spite of your disinclination to believe in absolutes, in inevitabilities, you may allow for the occasional Jose Alberto Pujols.
On Sunday, he hit the 660th home run of his baseball career, not counting the 19 he hit in eight postseasons, and so tied Willie Mays in fifth place on that list, behind only Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Alex Rodriguez.