"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 ...

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.

Yes, we know it’s nutty. We hope you enjoy. So much of life is style. Napoleon “Larry” Lajoie was, in so many ways, every bit the hard-bitten character that his great nemesis Ty Cobb was.