For 12 years, Albert Pujols used an illegal bat that was grandfathered.
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Major League Baseball declared the Albert Pujols bat to be unlawful in 2010.
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Even after the league's requirements changed, the future Hall of Famer was still able to utilise it since it was grandfathered in.
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Before the World Series began, Martin Maldonado of the Houston Astros requested that Pujols bring him several bats.
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In Game 1, he utilised the slugger's model, which was later shown to be an illegal bat.
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Early in Game 2 on Saturday night, FOX aired a brief, 50-second feature on Maldonado and the bats he used in Games 1 and 2.
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He learned today from MLB that the bat he used last night wasn't an authorised one.
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He selected a model that he had gotten from Albert Pujols because he believed it to be quite comparable to his own model.
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