This card is part of the 2013 Panini Cooperstown 100 card Green Cystal parallel set. Each card features a green prismed surface and was inserted randomly into packs of 2013 Panini Cooperstown Baseball.
- From the 2013 Panini Cooperstown Green Cystal 100 Card parallel set
- Randomly inserted into packs of 2013 Paninin Cooperstown Baseball
Player Biography
Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie combined graceful fielding with precision at the plate. Lajoie batted .300 or better in 17 of 21 seasons, topping .350 in 10 campaigns, with a high of .422 in 1901, which remains an American League single-season record. That year, he won the A.L. Triple Crown and initiated the first court challenge to the reserve clause. By 1902, the Cleveland club became known as the “Naps” as a tribute to his star power. Billy Murphy, a St. Louis journalist, once wrote: “As long as baseball lives, the memory of Lajoie will last; and it ever will be a fresh memory of a ball player and a gentleman.”
This card is part of the 2013 Panini Cooperstown 100 card Green Cystal parallel set. Each card features a green prismed surface and was inserted randomly into packs of 2013 Panini Cooperstown Baseball.
- From the 2013 Panini Cooperstown Green Cystal 100 Card parallel set
- Randomly inserted into packs of 2013 Paninin Cooperstown Baseball
Player Biography
Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie combined graceful fielding with precision at the plate. Lajoie batted .300 or better in 17 of 21 seasons, topping .350 in 10 campaigns, with a high of .422 in 1901, which remains an American League single-season record. That year, he won the A.L. Triple Crown and initiated the first court challenge to the reserve clause. By 1902, the Cleveland club became known as the “Naps” as a tribute to his star power. Billy Murphy, a St. Louis journalist, once wrote: “As long as baseball lives, the memory of Lajoie will last; and it ever will be a fresh memory of a ball player and a gentleman.”
