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.

"Lajoie Wins Auto In Final Stretch," but acknowledged in a subhead that some thing had smelled at Sportsman's Park: "St. Louis Papers Say Browns Made It Easy for Nap Slugger." After the writer of ...

"You can’t even imagine jerseys without numbers and we were ... “Some of our best players, boys like Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Addie Joss didn’t have numbers on their uniforms and we ...