Napoleon Lajoie

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Posted By: t-206collector

How do you pronounce his last name? I have seen/heard at least three different ways of pronouncing it: (1) La-zh'way; (2) Lay-o-way; and (3) La-Joy. I prefer the first, but hardly think that counts.

Similarly (because Nap is featured in the latter song), does anybody know of any other songs or poems like "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" or "Gee, It's A Wonderful Game!" that actually mention pre-WWI players?

Thanks!

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Posted By: slacks

I've heard (1) and (3) and even La-joe-way. I prefer "Larry."

Slightly OT, I think he was once intentionally walked with the bases loaded, though, and that's saying something...

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Posted By: runscott

You can order it from Amazon.com, and it's about 4 hrs of the tapes Ritter used to write the book in 1961. If you are into pre-wwi baseball, this is the first thing you will want. You can hear these old-timers pronouncing each others names when they tell stories.

Does anyone know of any similar items available? Or dvd's with pre-wwi film footage? Thanks

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Posted By: jay behrens

SABR is currently forming a committee for basbeball songs and poems. If you are on the 19c mailing list, you are seeing all the traffic. Some of it is also coming across the DEC list.

Jay

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Posted By: dan mckee

#2 is a Kmart saying isn't it? I vote #1 since that was the popular way in the 1930s and I have a living reference.

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Posted By: Julie

"Lazh-way" comes from tring to say "la joie" (2 syllables), and the mouth naturally falls into a "w" between the two halves.

Hey, don't forget "Slide, Kelly, Slide!" from the 19th century.