Jim Thorpe
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"James Francis" ""Jim"" "Thorpe": Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 28, 1888March 28, 1953)Magill. pg. 2320

* Gerasimo and Whiteley. pg. 28

* [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_thorpe_1.html "World-Class Athlete Jim Thorpe Was Born May 28, 1888,"] americaslibrary.gov, Retrieved April 23, 2007. was an American athlete of Native American and European ancestry. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and professional), and also played professional baseball and basketball. He List of stripped Olympic medals/lost his Olympic titles after it was found he was paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals.

Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma. He played as part of several all American Indian teams throughout his career, and "Barnstorm (athletics)/barnstormed" as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians.

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The sounds of Bye, Bye Blackbird still stung him to the day he passed away.

The reason we can play, ... is that it's not about the golf swing. It makes no difference how you swing the club as long as you can win the money.

The weather was perfect. I like this golf course. The greens are loaded. ... We know we can make birdies out there.

From No. 11 on, I hit the ball very well. I felt my iron game was very good today, and then I hit two very good shots at No. 18.

There's nothing wrong with giving.

There were soft greens and fairways, ... They moved the tee markers down. It was very generous.

I think it played easier today than it did in the pro-am.

Thorpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in its first class. My grandfather was a footnote. Until today.

Mouth almighty and tongue everlasting, ... Man, you gotta be strong to stand up to Doyle's stuff. It's brutal but funny, and it makes you better mentally.