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Taken straight from a SABR bio article:
"Napoleon Lajoie (typically pronounced LAJ-way, though Nap himself is supposed to have preferred the French pronunciation, Lah-ZHWA)" Mike |
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La-ZHWA is how I always read it as a kid. Presumably that comes from having grown up in New Orleans, but it's nice to see that the man himself may have agreed.
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