Jim Thorpe Ticket
AIRED: Season 3, Episode 10
THE DETECTIVE: Wes Cowan
THE PLACE: Jamestown, New York
THE CASE:
A pair of sports tickets from 1927 are discovered in a used book.
The tickets are for a basketball game featuring Jim Thorpe, the legendary Native American athlete who was known for his 1912 Olympic gold medals and Herculean strengths as a football and baseball player.
Why do none of his biographers refer to a career as a professional basketball player?
History Detectives is off to New York and Pennsylvania to reveal a largely unknown chapter in the life of a sports legend and uncover some harsh truths about racism in the sports world.
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