Nap Lajoie
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Napoléon Lajoie, also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "the Frenchman", he represented both Philade
Lajoie in 1913
Lajoie c. 1908
Napoleon Lajoie, second baseman for Cleveland, ca. 1906; from the Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy Collection of the Boston Public Library
Nap Lajoie on a 1911 American Tobacco Company baseball card
The 1937 process of selecting inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame was markedly different from the initial elections the previous year. As only half of the initial goal of 10 inductees had been sele
Nap Lajoie
…ever faced. He'd take your leg off with a line drive, turn the third baseman around like a swinging door and powder the hand of the left fielder." In 1937, Lajoie was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Lajoie was born on September 5, 1874, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, to Jean-Baptiste and…
Lajoie's plaque in Cooperstown
Young's plaque in Cooperstown
Cy Yoyng 1891