Nap Lajoie's plaque is shown at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. (Chris Lillstrung - The News-Herald) Captured in David L. Fleitz’s 2013 biography on Lajoie ...

Napoleon Lajoie, collector of 3,242 hits and 1937 Hall of Fame inductee, was, as you might imagine, very good at baseball (or "base ball" in the grammar of Mr. Lajoie's day). After all ...

Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker ... as unanimous selections to the Baseball Hall of Fame. None of them did.