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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Baseball and Jim Thorpe
Description: (Bettmann / Corbis)Jim Thorpe is widely considered as the greatest athlete to ever live.He is well known for his exploits in the 1912 Olympics and even for his time playing professional football.But, in this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson has the story of Thorpe’s lesser known professional baseball career.Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, the author of Growing Up With Clemente and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader, newly released in paperback.Pete wants to remind listeners a recent...