Jim Thorpe: 20th-Century Jock
Robert Lipsyte, John Hite
Paperback
(HarperCollins, March 10, 1995)
Cheered as a superman when he won the Olympic gold in the decathlon and the pentathlon, Jim Thorpe was stripped of those honors, and disgraced, when authorities discovered he had once played semi-professional baseball. Exploring both the trials and the triumphs of America’s first great all-around athlete, this portrait of the man and the Native American community from which he came is ‘involving and thought-provoking.’—BL. 1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)1993 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)
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