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Nov 17, 2021 · Decades before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders starred in baseball and football, Jim Thorpe was America’s original multi-sport athlete. A two-time college football All-American and charter member...
Jul 15, 2022 · Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at...
Though he died in poverty, Jim Thorpe is remembered as one of the greatest sportsmen of the 20th century, having won two Olympic track and field golds and played baseball, American football and basketball at the highest level.
Jim Thorpe is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century. Here is a look back at his exciting, but troubled, life.
Aug 27, 2022 · Jim Thorpe is one of those epic names in American lore - the greatest athlete ever, a Native American who overcame great odds to triumph in a number of sports - football, baseball,...
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Jim Thorpe played major league baseball for six years. Playing mostly outfield, the right-handed batter played only 289 games while batting .252 with seven homers and 29 stolen bases. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
Just before the season-ending series between the Canton Bulldogs and the arch-rival Massillon Tigers in 1915, Bulldogs general manager Jack Cusack signed the most famous athlete of the age, Jim Thorpe, for the princely sum of $250 a game.
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