best athelete EVER lived ?!?!?!...here he is...i thought ya'll was sports guys ?!?!?!?!?!

cardnyou · July 16, 2002 1:43PM

Full name: Jim Thorpe
Born: May 28, 1887
Died: March 28, 1953

Height: 6'-1" Weight: 190 lbs.
Position: Halfback
He played for Carlisle Indian School, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Oorang Indians, Rock Island Independents, New York Giants, Canton Bulldogs and Chicago Cardinals.
He was the most famous American athlete of the age. He was excellent at every sport he tried.
He won the decathlon and penthatlon events at the 1912 Olympics.
He did play major-league baseball from 1913 to 1919.
Football was his favorite sport. In 1912, Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and 198 points in leading his Carlisle Indian School team to a national collegiate championship.
Jim Thorpe was selected by the nation's press in 1950 as the most outstanding athlete of the 20th century.
Jim Thorpe was also declared as "America's Greatest football player of the half-century," in 1950.

1. Believe it or not, a player once hit 3 home runs into 3 different states in the same game...Olympic champion Jim Thorpe played in a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border...He hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma...Then he hit a homer over the rightfield wall, into Arkansas...His third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield, which was in Texas!

2. Thorpe is one of two men in history who played for both the New York football (running back) and the baseball (outfielder) Giants.

3. Thorpe played football professionally well past his prime, retiring in 1928 at age 41.

4. Jim Thorpe played major and minor league baseball for 20 years, starting with the New York Giants in 1913, later playing for the Boston Braves and the Cincinnatti Reds, plus several others.

5. Thorpe was the first president of what is now the National Football League.

6. Thorpe was .252 in his six seasons (1913-15, 1917-19) as an outfielder with the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves.

7. Thorpe's best baseball season was his last, when he batted .327 in 60 games for Boston.

now who on the other list could do all this ? NONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!