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Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie (/ ˈ l æ ʒ ə w eɪ /; September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Roland Lajoie (August 11, 1936 – October 28, 2023) was a United States Army officer who served two tours in Vietnam and then in a variety of diplomatic and Cold War assignments. After retiring from the Army, he oversaw U.S. assistance and monitoring in former Soviet states as they decommissioned nuclear forces.
William Richard Lajoie (September 27, 1934 – December 28, 2010) was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front-office executive. The general manager of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1990, he helped to build, then served as GM of, the world champion 1984 Tigers .
Andrée Lajoie (born 1933), Canadian jurist and academic; Bill Lajoie (1934–2010), American baseball player and general manager; Claude Lajoie (1928–2015), Canadian Liberal Party member; Corey LaJoie (born 1991), American race car driver, son of Randy LaJoie; Jon Lajoie (born 1980), Canadian comedian, actor, and internet celebrity
Daigle made his major league debut in 2004, giving up five home runs in less than three innings. As of 2020, he is the only pitcher in Major League history to allow five or more home runs in his debut. [1] He started 10 games for the Diamondbacks in 2004. His ERA was at 7.16 with a strikeout to walk ratio of 17/27 in 49 innings.
Paul Gérin-Lajoie, CC GOQ QC (French pronunciation: [pol ʒeʁɛ̃ laʒwa]; February 23, 1920 – June 25, 2018) was a Canadian lawyer, philanthropist, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister.
The Gérin-Lajoie family is a French-Canadian family descended from Jean Gérin dit La joie, a sergeant in the troops of the military forces of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, in New France, who arrived in Canada around 1750. [1]
Daigle or D'Aigle is a modification of the French surname Daigre. The first appearance of the last-name Daigle in the Americas was in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia in 1727. The last name Daigre originated in France and is likely the surname of peoples migrating from Aigre, France to New France in the Americas during the 16th and 17th centuries.