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Olympic Games/ summer, 1912/ Stockholm/ Poster "Jim Thorpe, The All American". Covered Size: 61 x 45 cm Jim Thorpe (1887-1953) as an American soccer player, red Carlisle Indians jersey, by the great illustrator Emmett Watson (1893-1955). With this superb portrait of the ill-fated hero of the 1912 Games, we plunge into the period of pure amateurism... Large winner, please, of the pentathlon and decathlon, this American of Indian origin, will be retrospectively disqualified for having made a little money as a baseball player.Modern times will sort things out, and the injustice will be rectified in 1980-2000... This portrait shows the legendary figure and his versatility as a runner (103), long jumper, baseball player and US footballer. Revered by President Eisenhower, the man who dominated Brundage, the future president of the IOC, in Stockholm, is considered to be the greatest American athlete of the 20th century, for if he excelled accidentally, so to speak, in athletics, he also made sparks fly in baseball, American soccer and baseball, until the age of 41...1950s.

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Olympic Games/ summer, 1912/ Stockholm/ Poster "Jim Thorpe, The All American". Covered Size: 61 x 45 cm Jim Thorpe (1887-1953) as an American soccer player, red Carlisle Indians jersey, by the great illustrator Emmett Watson (1893-1955). With this superb portrait of the ill-fated hero of the 1912 Games, we plunge into the period of pure amateurism... Large winner, please, of the pentathlon and decathlon, this American of Indian origin, will be retrospectively disqualified for having made a little money as a baseball player.Modern times will sort things out, and the injustice will be rectified in 1980-2000... This portrait shows the legendary figure and his versatility as a runner (103), long jumper, baseball player and US footballer. Revered by President Eisenhower, the man who dominated Brundage, the future president of the IOC, in Stockholm, is considered to be the greatest American athlete of the 20th century, for if he excelled accidentally, so to speak, in athletics, he also made sparks fly in baseball, American soccer and baseball, until the age of 41...1950s.

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