SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Albert Pujols grew up not 30 minutes from Estadio Quisqueya, a quaint, shaded stadium that has housed Santo Domingo’s two baseball teams, the Tigres del Licey and the Leones del Escogido, for 70 years. When he was 10, and the right-field corner was composed of benches instead of seats, he roamed the aisles selling sandwiches with his mother to earn extra money. His cousins rooted for Licey, by far the nation’s most popular team, and so Pujols took on Escogido, at least in part to spite them.
That was the team he cheered for every winter — the team he promised to play with before his major league playing career ended, the team that gave him his first chance to manage last February, and…
