suave1477
01-03-2007, 01:46 PM
I beleive everyone is aware of who Jim Thorpe is but I was more famaliar with his darkened past of the Olympics scandal and not much of his Pro Career. Here is some interesting facts about him!!!
I have never seen any Game Used items of his, has anyone else?
Has anyone ever come across his Game Used Bats?
• Believe it or not, Thorpe once hit 3 home runs into 3 different states in the same game. During a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border, he hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma, his second homer over the rightfield wall into Arkansas and his third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield, which was in Texas!
• Thorpe is one of two men in history who played for the New York Giants in two different sports. In football, he was the New York Giants' running back and in baseball he was the New York Giants' outfielder.
• Thorpe played football professionally well past his prime, retiring in 1928 at age 41.
• Jim Thorpe played major and minor league baseball for 20 years, starting with the New York Giants in 1913 and later playing a number of other teams, including the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds.
• Thorpe was the first president of what is now the National Football League.
• Thorpe was .252 in his six seasons (1913-15, 1917-19) as an outfielder with the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves.
• Thorpe's best baseball season was his last, when he batted .327 in 60 games for Boston.
• At and auction in October 2003, an early 1900s football jersey worn by Jim Thorpe fetched a winning bid of $210,000.
I have never seen any Game Used items of his, has anyone else?
Has anyone ever come across his Game Used Bats?
• Believe it or not, Thorpe once hit 3 home runs into 3 different states in the same game. During a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border, he hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma, his second homer over the rightfield wall into Arkansas and his third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield, which was in Texas!
• Thorpe is one of two men in history who played for the New York Giants in two different sports. In football, he was the New York Giants' running back and in baseball he was the New York Giants' outfielder.
• Thorpe played football professionally well past his prime, retiring in 1928 at age 41.
• Jim Thorpe played major and minor league baseball for 20 years, starting with the New York Giants in 1913 and later playing a number of other teams, including the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds.
• Thorpe was the first president of what is now the National Football League.
• Thorpe was .252 in his six seasons (1913-15, 1917-19) as an outfielder with the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves.
• Thorpe's best baseball season was his last, when he batted .327 in 60 games for Boston.
• At and auction in October 2003, an early 1900s football jersey worn by Jim Thorpe fetched a winning bid of $210,000.