On this day: Born May 28, 1888: Jim Thorpe, American athlete

REUTERS: Jim Thorpe, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and formidable American football and baseball player, was one of the greatest U.S. athletes of all time but the public often failed to recognise him as one of their own during his lifetime.

At the Games he took gold in the pentathlon and then in the final event of the Games, the decathlon, set an Olympic record, leading King Gustav V of Sweden to call him"the greatest athlete in the world". "He dealt with adversity his whole life," Justin Lenhart, museum curator for the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, told Reuters."Thorpe's legacy is perseverance. He wasn't a perfect man ... but he also accomplished a lot under some really tough circumstances."In 1913, Thorpe signed with baseball's New York Giants and would go on to play six MLB seasons, posting a career .252 batting average.

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