Napoleon “Larry” Lajoie was, in so many ways ... He once grew so mad that an umpire would not replace a baseball that had gone black from dirt and spit and grime, he simply picked up the ...

Nap joined the Philadelphia Athletics, who were managed by a lanky young man named Connie Mack, and continued his drive to baseball immortality. Lajoie liked to recall those early days in the AL.

They insist that other fielders abetted him and aided Lajoie in his race for highest honors. Among others who wrote in similar strain, the baseball editor of the St. Louis Globe Democrat gave the ...

Napoleon Lajoie, collector of 3,242 hits and 1937 Hall of Fame inductee, was, as you might imagine, very good at baseball (or "base ball" in the grammar of Mr. Lajoie's day). After all ...

Nap Lajoie, Eddie Collins and Grover Cleveland Alexander. In other words, it’s the ultimate historical baseball jackpot. Those 11 baseball figures were all elected throughout the first four ...

Yes, that Nap Lajoie. Arguably the greatest second baseman in the history of baseball — and one of its best all-around players, one who became a Cleveland icon in the first half of the 20th ...

419 for the Detroit Tigers to lift his career batting average to .359 and replace Nap Lajoie as Major League Baseball’s leader, the Georgia Peach had held that record, retiring in 1928 with an ...