Jose Altuve and fellow Astros Yulieski Gurriel and A.J. Reed visited Shriners Hospital in Galveston, Texas this past week. They visited with young fans and played games such as connect four with them. This reminded me how lucky we are as Astros fans to have Altuve in Houston.
If you don’t know his story by now, it would be a good idea to learn it. Signed out of Venezuela at the age of 16, the boy that barely stood 5’5″ excelled in the minors, and quickly arrived in Houston in 2011, on a very dismal Astros team.