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Originally Posted by luckymann
Hey Lans do you have an FG done for Jim Thorpe? I must have culled the one I had previously.
If you do, would you mind posting it here?
Thanks bud.
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Grandson of the famed Chippewa warrior Black Hawk, Jim Thorpe was the greatest all-around athlete of the Deadball Era. In addition to playing major-league baseball for six seasons, the 6-foor-1, 185-pound Thorpe was an Olympic champion in the pentathlon and decathlon and at one point the greatest American football player in history, according to a 1977 Sport magazine poll. One sportswriter called him the “most marvelous creation fashioned in human likeness that has ever inhabited the earth,” but others described him as simple-minded, lazy, averse to training, and unable to hold his liquor. Thorpe’s disappointing baseball career –he played in 289 National League games and hit only .252 with seven home runs and 29 stolen bases – demonstrated what multi-sport athletes like Michael Jordan have since discovered: that mere possession of superb natural tools doesn’t guarantee success on the diamond. “I can’t seem to hit curves,” Jim admitted. “I believe I could hit .300 otherwise.” - SABR bio
Here's the one from the pack (left) and one that I did this evening (right). If needing the one in the pack, I reckon you can fish it out, so posting mine here in the thread. I used the B&W pic of him though he looks older, rather than fight the shadows from the cap in the Reds pic.