Talk:Nap Lajoie

1901 Batting Average
For the purpose of noting Nap's 1901 batting average per Offical records as .426: MLB (officially recognized), Retrosheet (SABR recognized), and Baseball-Reference. All three considered by and large the top statistical sources for baseball players. However the website used to support a .422 batting average for that season, a SABR researcher who wrote this article that was quite clearly written in 1975 (note who he denotes as active players). And these totals were the official record at the time; However baseball author and SABR member, David Nemec, in the 1980s, credited Nap with three hits and one at bat when he did a complete reaserch of the 1901 season, and the change was recognized.(Baseball Digest, June 2005)  Therefore, I am reverting the change back to .426. Neonblak  talk  -  18:58, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation ?
As a demi-Francophone, I've always wondered about the pronunciation of this player's last name. In Canada, where his family originated, they undoubtedly pronounced it La-ZHWAH, but here in the U. S. A. we sometimes do strange and wondrous things to "foreign" words, so I usually hear LAH-jo-way or La-JO-ee or other odd variations. Can anybody tell us what the usual pronunciation was during his playing days? I know that's asking a lot, without taped radio broadcasts or interviews, but perhaps some of our older Wikipedians can remember discussing the man with even older fans who might have heard his name spoken in the days of his prominence. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 19:12, 20 October 2013 (UTC)


 * It was pronounced LAJ-a-way.--72.94.172.49 (talk) 00:53, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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Contradiction
There's a contradiction in the "early life" section". It says that his father decide when he was a child, but then quotes him as saying his father called him a "bum" when he started playing semi-pro. Both can't be true. Was he talking about a step-father? Tad Lincoln (talk) 00:26, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Final game of 1910
I changed the description of the final game of the doubleheader from Lajoie getting a sacrifice, to Lajoie getting an error. Various sources, such as "The Chalmers Race" and "Tales from the Deadball Era," claim that it was actually his last at-bat being scored an error instead of a different at-bat being scored a sacrifice that changed his line from that day from 9-9 to 8-8. In addition, Retrosheet and Baseball Reference record an error for third basemen Corriden, which can be assumed is that last at bat. If anyone has more definitive proof either way, such as a play-by-play record or a newspaper clipping claiming one or another, do not hesitate to edit and add citations, as well as reply to this topic. NomzEditingWikis (talk) 03:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)