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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.Neonblaktalk - 18:58, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There is some controversy to his defensive prowess (what stats aren't debated by historians?). Nonetheless, I seemed to have missed inserting this and will look at sources and look to add. Zepppep (talk) 05:53, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
May I know what the red x refers to? Personally I think it's a bit overkill to put the figure next to each and every dollar figure, but let me know if you believe that should be expected for GA (I have added terms to when the amounts are quite divergent or when there is considerable gaps between dollar figures, as this might not be convenient for the reader to calculate, but if you think they'd need to be placed next to each and every figure, please let me know). Zepppep (talk) 10:51, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"Lajoie was "the first superstar" to join the AL and whose contract was for $4,000." is ungrammatical. You could either put a comma after AL and change whose to his" or you could end the sentence at AL and then convey the rest of the content in a separate sentence.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:41, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Removed it. Thought it was a bit trivial. Source lists one additional player and I'm not a huge fan of "did you know that only XX, XX, XX, and XX did the same thing?" in articles.
Yes, they were known by that name for one season. I added a ref. (Some fans reverted to calling them that colloquially during tough seasons, and since it was the team's first official name, old habits died hard.)
Done I decided against expansion since there is a main article covering the rivalry. Instead, I merged the first para into the last para of the Cobb section, and put the last sentence (career stats) in the Legacy section; I feel his career stats being mentioned nicely leads into the next sentence (which mentions his HoF induction). Zepppep (talk) 18:01, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I got that far. But of the few files I looked at as a guide on Commons I didn't see this template in use (perhaps the text is changed once the template has been saved to the file?). I also see from Commons [1]Personality rights warning, for images of an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently; Lajoie died more than 50 years ago. If you feel this is needed, do you have a file I can look at to get instruction, or a link of better instructions on how this would be added? Or maybe you can just add it to one of the files and let me look afterwards? Added the template to each of the images used for this article (3). Zepppep (talk) 02:39, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Done Zepppep (talk) 10:51, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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