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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...