CLEVELAND NAPS 1906 Sporting Life Composite Postcard PSA 2 RARE NAP LAJOIE HOF

Description: * * * * Item Description: You are bidding on a Professionally Graded CLEVELAND NAPS 1906 Sporting Life Composite Postcard Featuring Hall of Famers Nap Lajoie, Addie Joss, and Elmer Flick. This card is pretty rare, and as of October, 2024 there are only 5 total PSA graded examples. Please check the PSA database for any changes to this number. The "Naps", short for Cleveland Napoleans, were the precursor to the Cleveland Indians, and were named after team captain Nap Lajoie. Nap Lajoie was one of the first big stars to move from the National League (Phillies) to the American League in 1901, and helped the league bridge the gap from minor to major league status. The first World Series between the National and American Leagues was played 2 years later in 1903. Sadly, Cleveland would never win the pennant under Lajoie's watch, the closest the Naps ever got was 2nd place in 1908. Great rare item featuring 3 Hall of Fame Greats! Thanks for looking and good luck! 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Nap Lajoie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie Second baseman Born: September 5, 1874 Woonsocket, Rhode Island Died: February 7, 1959 (aged 84) Daytona Beach, Florida Batted: Right Threw: Right MLB debut August 12, 1896 for the Philadelphia Phillies Last MLB appearance August 26, 1916 for the Philadelphia Athletics Career statistics Batting average .338 Hits 3,242 Runs scored 1,504 Home Runs 83 Teams As Player Philadelphia Phillies (1896–1900) Philadelphia Athletics (1901–1902) Cleveland Naps (1902–1914) Philadelphia Athletics (1915–1916) As Manager Cleveland Naps (1905–1909) Career highlights and awards 1901 American League Triple Crown Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction 1937 Vote 83.58% (second ballot) Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie (English pronunciation: /'læ??we?/; September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American Major League Baseball second baseman. He was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. In his career as a second baseman, he was considered one of the greatest players of the fledgling American League in the early 20th century, and the most serious of Ty Cobb's challengers. Lajoie was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. Playing career Lajoie started his career in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1896. In 1901, in response to a league-wide salary cap of $2,400 per year, he jumped to the crosstown Philadelphia Athletics, owned by former Phillies' part-owner Benjamin Shibe and managed by Connie Mack. Lajoie's batting average that year was .426. The same year Lajoie became the second Major Leaguer to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded after Abner Dalrymple in 1881. Only four other players have done it since: Del Bissonette in 1928, Bill Nicholson in 1944, Barry Bonds in 1998, and Josh Hamilton in 2008.[1] Lajoie circa 1908. The next year the Phillies obtained an injunction barring Lajoie from playing baseball for any team other than the Phillies. However, a lawyer discovered the injunction was only enforceable in the state of Pennsylvania. Mack responded by trading Lajoie to the then-moribund Cleveland Bluebirds, whose owner, Charles Somers, had provided considerable financial assistance to the A's in the early years. Lajoie arrived in Cleveland on June 4, and proved to be the shot in the arm the Bluebirds needed, drawing 10,000 fans to League Park in his first game.[citation needed] He was named team captain a few weeks later, and at the end of the season the team changed its name to the "Naps" in his honor. For the remainder of 1902 and most of 1903, Lajoie and teammate Elmer Flick traveled separately from the rest of the team, never setting foot in Pennsylvania so as to avoid a subpoena. The issue was finally resolved when the leagues made peace through the National Agreement in September 1903.[citation needed] Lajoie won three batting titles and might have won a fourth if he had not contracted sepsis from an untreated spike injury in 1905.[citation needed] With Cobb's arrival in the Majors in 1905, however, Lajoie faced real competition. Rivalry with Ty Cobb Main article: 1910 Chalmers Award The Lajoie-Cobb rivalry reached a peak in 1910, when the Chalmers Auto Company (a direct predecessor to modern-day Chrysler) promised a car to the batting leader (and MVP) that year. Cobb took the final two games of the 1910 season off, confident that his average was high enough to win the AL batting title unless Lajoie had a near-perfect final day. Lajoie, a far more popular player than Cobb, was allowed by the opposing St. Louis Browns to go 8-for-8 in a season-ending doubleheader. After a "sun-hindered" fly ball went for a triple and another batted ball landed for a cleanly hit single, Lajoie had five subsequent "hits" – bunt singles dropped in front of third baseman Red Corriden, who was playing closer to shallow left field on orders of manager Jack O'Connor. Lajoie also laid down a sixth bunt that was muffed for an error—officially giving him a hitless at-bat and dropping his average. O'Connor and coach Harry Howell then offered a new wardrobe to the official scorer, a woman, if she changed it to a hit. She refused, and the resulting uproar resulted in O'Connor and Howell being kicked out of baseball for life. Nap Lajoie on a 1911 American Tobacco Company baseball card. As it turns out, Lajoie's average is not the only one tainted by controversy; Cobb's average might have been inflated by counting a game twice in his statistics when one day he went 2-for-3, as researchers discovered 70 years later. In the end, the Chalmers Auto Company avoided taking sides in the dispute by awarding cars to both Cobb and Lajoie for their thrilling batting race. Legacy Lajoie ended his career in 1915 and 1916 with a return to the Athletics, finishing with a lifetime .339 average. His career total of 3,242 hits was the second best in Major League history at the time, behind only Honus Wagner's total. Lajoie's 2,521 hits in the AL was the league record until Cobb surpassed it in 1918. Among second basemen, Lajoie posted staggering career offensive numbers; in the history of baseball, only Rogers Hornsby and Eddie Collins can compare. Lajoie was among the second group of players elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937, being inducted when the Hall opened in 1939. He died in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1959, at the age of 84. In 1999, he ranked number 29 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Lajoie is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday L is for Lajoie Whom Clevelanders love, Napoleon himself, With glue in his glove. — Ogden Nash, Sport magazine (January 1949)[2] Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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