Lajoie, nicknamed " The Frenchman " and considered baseball's most famous player at the time, arrived in Cleveland on June 4 and his play was immediately met with approval from fans.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

The 1910 race for best average in the American League was between the Detroit Tigers ' widely disliked Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the following year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years .< ref name =" nap ">

Speaker singled off Senators pitcher Tom Zachary on May 17, 1925, to become the fifth member of the 3, 000 hit club and the second man to reach the historic mark while wearing a Cleveland uniform ( Napoleon Lajoie was the first ).

As a recourse, Flick and teammate Nap Lajoie signed instead with the Cleveland Naps, as the Pennsylvania injunction could not be enforced in Ohio ; the two players often traveled separately from their teammates for the next year, never setting foot in Pennsylvania in order to avoid a subpoena.

One year later, Lajoie went to the Cleveland Bronchos where he would play until the 1915 season when he returned to play for Mack and the Athletics.

While with Cleveland, Lajoie's popularity led to locals electing to change the club's team name from Bronchos to Napoleons (" Naps " for short ), which remained until after Lajoie departed Cleveland and the name was changed to Indians ( the team's present-day name ).

Mack responded by trading Lajoie and Bill Bernhard to the then-moribund Cleveland Bronchos, whose owner, Charles Somers, had provided considerable financial assistance to the A's in the early years .< Ref >< Ref name =" Cook "> Lajoie was also pursued by Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox .< Ref >

New York Giants manager, John McGraw, was rumored to want to sign Lajoie but Lajoie stated his intentions when he said "... for I intend to stick to Cleveland.

To begin the 1903 season, the club changed its name from the Blues to the Naps in honor of Lajoie after a readers ' poll result was released by the Cleveland Press.

He played in 117 games on the season, an increase of the 90 he played in one season before, but Cleveland, who had hired Joe Birmingham as the team's fifth manager since Lajoie gave up the role in 1909, finished 75 – 78 .< Ref name =" Complete " /> Lajoie and Joe Jackson tied for the team lead with 90 RBIs.

Those players are: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Luke Appling, Gabby Hartnett, Harmon Killebrew, Nap Lajoie, Al Lopez, Rube Marquard, Joe McCarthy, Bill McKechnie, Ray Schalk.

There, Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Naps, who lived in the same neighborhood, discovered Peckinpaugh.

Grant entered the majors with the Cleveland Indians at the very end of the season as an emergency replacement for an ailing Nap Lajoie.

In 1915 the American League team, previously called the Cleveland Naps in reference to player / manager Nap Lajoie, was renamed the Cleveland Indians.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

Nap Lajoie on a 1911 baseball card

When it was initially ( and erroneously ) reported that Nap Lajoie had won the batting title, Crawford was alleged to have been one of several Tigers who sent a telegram to Lajoie congratulating him on beating Cobb.

The Philadelphia Phillies of the MLB's National League ( NL ) purchased Lajoie and teammate Phil Geier from Fall River for $ 1, 500 on August 9.

Against the Washington Senators on August 12, 1896, Lajoie made his major league debut.

Frank Hough offered Lajoie the contract on behalf of Mack.

He later informally replaced Bill Armour as the team's manager ( Armour submitted his resignation on September 9 but as team captain, Lajoie had already been acting as the Naps ' field manager ).

Baseball historians have suggested the managerial duties Lajoie took on impacted his offensive numbers.

" Lajoie recommended to Somers on August 17, 1909, he find the team a new manager, although he wanted to remain on the club as a player.

Lajoie later described the decision to take on the added duties as a player-manager as the biggest mistake of his career as he felt it negatively affected his play.

Lajoie hit. 335 on the year, the last time he would hit over. 300 in his career.

Only two other major league players had attained 3, 000 career hits until Lajoie hit a double on September 27, 1914, and so joined Cap Anson and Honus Wagner in the 3, 000 hit club.

Donahue instead made pitches on the outside corner, to which Lajoie reached over " and hit them with ease.

Joe Foley, in This Sporting Life, echoed a common theme among baseball writers during that stretch of Lindstrom ’ s career when he named his perfect team: “ Sisler on first, Lajoie at second, Wagner at short, Lindstrom at third, Ruth, Speaker and Cobb in the outfield, Kling catching and Brown, Walsh, Bender and Mathewson taking turns pitching .”

* Name of character on American television sitcom The League played by Jon Lajoie

Previous hosts on the station included: Michel Langevin and Gabriel Grégoire ( morning show ), Mario Langlois ( mid-mornings ), Jean-Charles Lajoie ( early afternoons ), Michel Villeneuve ( afternoon drive ), Jean Chartrand ( early evenings ), Ron Fournier ( late evenings ), Marc Bryson ( weekends ) and Jacques Fabi ( general talk, weekday nights ).

Born in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, to J. Alfred La Forest and Philomène Lajoie, he first studied at St. Francis Xavier University and then went on to study law at the University of New Brunswick, obtaining a BCL in 1949.

Early in its history, Red Man advertisements were painted on the sides of barns, featuring an endorsement from baseball player Nap Lajoie: " Lajoie chews Red Man, ask him if he don't.

He finished fourth in the AL with a. 368 batting average .< Ref > In 1913, Birmgingham and Lajoie had arguments in the open, including one incident in June when Lajoie cursed Birmingham openly to reporters after being benched during a batting slump.

: Nap Lajoie, 4 ( 1901 – 1904 )

: 4 Nap Lajoie ( 1901, 1903 – 1904, 1910 )

: 4 Nap Lajoie ( 1897, 1901, 1903 – 1904 )

: 4 Nap Lajoie ( 1901, 1904, 1906, 1910 )

: 4 Nap Lajoie ( 1897, 1901, 1904, 1910 )

Lajoie was " the first superstar " to join the AL and whose contract was for $ 4, 000.

The Bronchos drew 10, 000 fans to League Park in Lajoie's first game .< Ref name =" Schneider "> The Bronchos ' record at the time Lajoie and fellow Athletics teammate, Bill Bernhard, joined was 11 – 24 and improved to 12 – 24 after the team's inaugural game with their new players, a 4 – 3 win over the Boston Americans.

* Nap Lajoie ( 27. 4, 1913 )