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	Napoleon Lajoie - MSN Encarta
		Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie [la-ZHWAH, or often la-ZHWAY, per the Canadian French pronunciation; or, as he himself usually pronounced it, LAJ-a-way ] (September 5, 1874 – February 7...
		Napoleon Lajoie (1875-1959), American professional baseball player, one of the best second basemen in the sport, celebrated for his sure and graceful fielding and his heavy hitting.
		Lajoie played 2475 games in the major leagues and had a lifetime batting average of.339.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761567389 (195 words)

	Nap Lajoie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lajoie won three batting crowns and might have won a fourth if he had not contracted blood poisoning from an untreated spike injury in 1905.
		Lajoie ended his career in 1915 and 1916 with a return to the Athletics, finishing with a lifetime.339 average.
		Lajoie was among the second group of players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937, being inducted when the Hall opened in 1939.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nap_Lajoie (616 words)

	Nap Lajoie -- One of baseball's most dominant infielders
		Lajoie, born in 1875, made his debut with Philadelphia of the National League in 1896 at the age of 21.
		Nap Lajoie was one of the players to seize the opportunity and, in 1901, he took the field with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics.
		Lajoie in the AL and Honus Wagner in the NL were considered to be the most dominate infielders of the time in both defense and offense.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/l/lajoie_nap.html (923 words)

	Baseball Historian - player profiles, biographies, and stats
		Lajoie was tops in fielding in seven seasons leading the league in assists, total chances, double plays and putouts.
		Lajoie's records speak for themselves, and Nap was the biggest at drawing crowds to the ball parks during his playing days.
		Nap Lajoie, Cleveland Naps 1905, had his season ruined when a spike wound became infested by the dye in his socks and he played in only 65 games.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /players.cfm?lookie_player=lajoina01 (313 words)

	Nap Lajoie Obituary
		Nap, as most of his friends called him, was an outfielder early in his career and finished as a first baseman but it is as a second baseman that he will be remembered.
		Nap staged a duel with Cobb for the batting title in 1909 but lost.3848 to.3841, despite his getting eight hits in eight times at bat on the season’s final day.
		Napoleon Lajoie, of French-Canadian descent, was born in Woonsocket, R.I., Sept. 5, 1875.
	baseball-almanac.com /deaths/nap_lajoie_obituary.shtml (914 words)

	The Greatest Baseball Player to be Sued On His Contract
		Second baseman Napoleon ("Nap") Lajoie, unhappy at his capped $2400 per year salary (yes, baseball had a salary cap at the time!) and his restrictive contract conditions, signed with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League.
		Lajoie's National League team, incensed that he would flee to a rival, brought a lawsuit in a Philadelphia court, sought to prevent him from playing for the Athletics.
		Nap Lajoie's 1902 dispute added one footnote to his glorious career: it made him the greatest baseball player to be taken to court over a contract dispute.
	www.sportslawnews.com /archive/history/HT1.html (496 words)

	The Sporting News Archives - Indians all-time greats: Nap Lajoie
		Nap was with Fall River of the New England League in 1896 when a Phillies scout arrived in town to check on outfielder Phil Geier.
		Lajoie remained a Phil until 1901, when the promise of a salary far in excess of the National League’s $2,400 limit lured Larry to the Athletics of the new Amer-ican League.
		Lajoie was a participant in one of the hottest and most controversial batting races in history in 1910.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/baseball/103302.html (661 words)

	Nap Lajoie Wins "George Wright Award"; Who Was Nap Lajoie" How Tobacco Lead To Basebll Cards; Nap Lajoie and Walter ...
		Lajoie led the league in batting average, runs batted in, and home runs, the categories which now comprise the "Triple Crown," as well as in several other important categories.
		Lajoie also led the league in most of the other important offensive categories, including on-base percentage (463), hits (232), runs scored (145), and doubles (48).
		Lajoie's leadership in home runs and doubles were reflected in the categories that marked slugging in 1901.
	www.homestead.com /spcgaz/77.html (1107 words)

	EricEnders.com - Nap Lajoie
		Napoleon Lajoie (pronunced lazh-way) was born in the industrial town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the son of French Canadian immigrants.
		Because Lajoie was a fugitive in Pennsylvania, he didn’t accompany the Blues on any of their road trips to Philadelphia.
		With Lajoie and several other stars unable to make road trips to Philadelphia, the Athletics beat up on their opponents, posting a 56-17 home record and drawing four times as many fans as the beleaguered Phils.
	www.ericenders.com /lajoie.htm (873 words)

	EricEnders.com - Nap Lajoie
		Napoleon Lajoie (pronunced lazh-way) was born in the industrial town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the son of French Canadian immigrants.
		Because Lajoie was a fugitive in Pennsylvania, he didn’t accompany the Blues on any of their road trips to Philadelphia.
		With Lajoie and several other stars unable to make road trips to Philadelphia, the Athletics beat up on their opponents, posting a 56-17 home record and drawing four times as many fans as the beleaguered Phils.
	ericenders.com /lajoie.htm (873 words)

	Nap Lajoie
		Napoleon Lajoie was one of the most graceful performers of his or any era.
		The Phillies had obtained an injunction forbidding Lajoie from playing in Pennsylvania; as a defense against unpredictable court proceedings, AL president Ban Johnson transferred Lajoie's contract to Cleveland, where his arrival instantly invigorated a moribund franchise.
		The race for the batting title between Ty Cobb and Lajoie in 1910 is a bit of baseball legend.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Lajoie.html (681 words)

	Heigh-ho: Past Times
		Nap Lajoie was one of the all-time great hitters of the dead ball era.
		In 1937, Nap was the first second baseman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the sixth player ever to be added to that shrine.
		Nap Lajoie was next in that balloting, 24 votes shy of the prize.
	sadspud.blogspot.com /2006/03/past-times.html (1578 words)

	Let's Go Tribe :: Ten Best Seasons: Second Base
		Lajoie was the first superstar of the franchise, and a key in keeping an AL franchise in Cleveland.
		Lajoie had won the league's first four batting titles, but by the end of the decade, Ty Cobb was the dominant hitter in the league.
		Nap's 49 doubles was first in the league, 16 ahead of the second-place finisher.
	www.letsgotribe.com /story/2006/2/21/183617/290 (1287 words)

	Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:LAJOIE, NAPOLEON "NAP"
		LAJOIE, NAPOLEON "NAP" (5 Sept. 1875-7 Feb. 1959), BASEBALL player with Cleveland (1902-14), was born in Woonsocket, R.I., to John and Celina Guerton Lajoie.
		When the AL was founded in 1901, Lajoie signed with the Athletics, that year batting.422, the highest average in AL history.
		Lajoie was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1937.
	ech.case.edu /ech-cgi/article.pl?id=LNN (275 words)

	The Ballplayers - Nap Lajoie \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Lajoie joined the NL Phillies during the 1896 season and played first base in 39 games.
		Although the young AL was not yet on a par with the established NL, Lajoie's batting marks were nevertheless exceptional.
		Although Lajoie led the AL in batting twice more, hitting.355 in 1903 and.381 in 1904, the race he lost to Ty Cobb in 1910 is a piece of baseball legend.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /ballplayers/player.php?name=Nap_Lajoie_1874 (611 words)

	MLB Greatest Players - All Time greatest MLB Baseball Players
		AL president Ban Johnson ordered that Lajoie be transferred to Cleveland where he could avoid Pennsylvania's jurisdiction but could still play in the AL; for the next few years Lajoie remained behind when the Indians traveled to Philadelphia.
		Nap won a fourth, albeit tainted batting championship when he racked up seven bunt singles on the last day of the 1910 season, all because of the opposing manager's hatred for Ty Cobb, who was four points ahead.
		Seven decades later the controversy erupted anew as it was discovered that Cobb had been the beneficiary of a double entry of a game in which he had gone 2-for-3; Larry had the higher batting average in 1910, after all.
	www.hollywoodsportsbook.com /mlbgreats/mlb_greatest_lajoie.cfm (376 words)

	Nap Lajoie - BR Bullpen
		In 1901 the AL was born, and Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics persuaded Nap to jump to his club.
		Once the injunction was in effect, Connie Mack saw no reason to hurt Lajoie or the rest of the AL, and Nap was allowed to join Cleveland so that he could play every game except those in Philadelphia.
		In 1910 though, he was free from all managerial duties, and the 35-year old Nap beat out 23 year old Cobb by one point in the batting race (.384 to.383).
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Nap_Lajoie (1410 words)

	The Cobb-Lajoie Race of 1910
		This hatred of Cobb came to a head in 1910 when he and Napoleon Lajoie, the player-manager of the Cleveland Naps, squared off in an epic race for the batting title (Cleveland had renamed its team in honor of the wildly popular Lajoie, who had come over from Philadelphia in 1902).
		Lajoie played with just as much fire and determination as Cobb did, and yet Lajoie was far more popular than Cobb could ever have been.
		The Browns laying down for Lajoie was just a very public statement by them (and by extension the rest of the league) that Cobb was simply not well-liked.
	wso.williams.edu /~jkossuth/cobb/lajoie.htm (909 words)

	Rube!!!
		Nap won a fourth, albeit tainted batting championship when he got seven bunt singles on the last day of the 1910 season, all because of the opposing manager's hatred for Ty Cobb, who was four points ahead.
		Lajoie was as great at the end of the decade as he was at the beginning of the decade.
		Lajoie's numbers - in the dead ball era where runs were scarce - are impressive even for a second baseman of the modern ilk.
	home.hiwaay.net /~bamacole/tommy/rube1.html (720 words)

	Nap Lajoie \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Lajoie continues the hit streak he started on May 8th and will not go hitless until May 31st, a string of twenty games.
		Lajoie goes 8-for-8 in a doubleheader with the Browns, accepting six "gift" hits on bunt singles on which Browns rookie 3B Red Corriden is apparently purposely stationed at the edge of the OF grass.
		In Lajoie's last at bat, he is safe at first on an error call, but is credited with a sac bunt since a man was on.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/L/Lajoie_Nap.stm (2645 words)

	1910 AL MVP AWARD
		Though there was no pennant race in the AL this year, but there was a memorable race of another kind: a famous battle between Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie to win both the batting title and a brand new automobile.
		In the AL, the top contenders were Ty Cobb, the most hated player in the league, and Nap Lajoie, a beloved star who was having his last great season.
		The story of Cobb and Lajoie took a few more twists afterwards; a recount of Cobb's stats revealed that a scorer's error had deprived him of two hits; those hits were restored to his season total, and he was officially recognized as the batting champion.
	webhome.idirect.com /~brettsmith/History/400Pages/al1910.htm (459 words)

	Today's column is a real snoozer
		Though "siesta" now often refers to the nap itself, at first it was a catchall term referring to the midday getaway, the meal, the nap and whatever fraternizing happened during the break.
		Little known fact: Nap Lajoie was effectively banned from playing in Pennsylvania for a few years, because the Philadelphia Phillies received a court injunction, enforceable only in the Keystone State, that prevented the Hall of Famer from playing for any other team.
		That meant Lajoie's contract with the Phillies' cross-town rivals, the Philadelphia Athletics, was transferred to Cleveland in 1902.
	www.postgazette.com /pg/07046/762241-294.stm (1125 words)

	1901 BBF AL MVP: Nap Lajoie - Baseball Fever
		Philadelphia second baseman Lajoie won the AL Triple Crown in 1901, leading the league in batting (.426), home runs (14), and RBI (125).
		Lajoie had previously been with the cross-town Philadelphia Phillies, but jumped to the newly formed AL before the 1901 season.
		The Phillies took Mack and the A's to court and got an injunction that would prevent Lajoie from playing any games in Pennsylvania effective the beginning of the 1902 season, leading to his move to Cleveland the next year.
	www.baseball-fever.com /blog.php?b=40 (217 words)

	Cleveland Indians (1901-Present)
		The Naps, who posted a record of 90-64, lose what was the closest pennant race in baseball history, being defeated by the Detroit Tigers by only a half a game for the American League pennant.
		However, it would be Lajoie's last season with Naps, after the team finishes in last place with a 51-102 record, and decides to rebuild with youth.
		With the departure of Nap Lajoie, the team needed a new name, so it decided to revive a name the old 1890's NL team had once use, Indians in honor of Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, who played for the team in 1897.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /al/clevind/indians.html (7651 words)

	Baseball Historian - Part of the Sports Historian Network
		In his first full season, Lajoie led the NL league with a slugging pct of.569, including 40 doubles and 23 triples.
		He holds the American League record for the highest one season batting mark in history, when in 1901 he hit.422.
		Three times he led his league in batting, and had four 200 plus seasons and four times he drove in over 100 runs.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /american_heroes.cfm?hero=119 (239 words)

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