 During spring training before the 1928 season , Lajoie commented on the 1927 New York Yankees . " Of course , you could see a lot of loafing going on but if that club is the greatest of all times , you just know that we had a lot of clubs in my time who were world champions and didn 't know it . " He died in Daytona Beach , Florida in 1959 , at the age of 84 from complications associated with pneumonia . He had fallen in the autumn of 1958 and fractured his arm . His wife had died earlier in 1951 . In 1999 , he ranked number 29 on The Sporting News ' list of the " 100 Greatest Baseball Players " , and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All @-@ Century Team . 
