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Jim Thorpe 1912 Original Photo from Culver Pictures Graded Fine by CGC.
Lot 263. Jim Thorpe 1912 Original Photo from Culver Pictures Graded Fine by CGC. The 7 ½” x 9” action photo captures Thorpe just after he has completed throwing a discus. Two months later, he would earn two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Stockholm. It shows some edge and corner creasing, an area below Thorpe where the emulsion is somewhat uneven and sharp focus and contrast. The Associated Press named Thorpe the top athlete of the first half of the 20th century and then dropped him to #3 for the full century behind Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan. ESPN ranked him seventh. Of course, none of the athletes the pundits placed ahead of him ever competed, let along won, gold medals in the rigorous pentathlon and decathlon in a single Olympics. Certainly Ruth was a far superior baseball player, but he never made the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame, or won an Olympic event. And even though baseball wasn’t Thorpe’s best game, he still collected 176 more major league hits and seven more home runs than Jordan. Whoever was best, this is an excellent vintage image of a truly great athlete.
Winning Bid $83.
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