Finally Securing A Jim Thorpe!!

Picking up a playing-era item -- something, anything -- of Jim Thorpe has always been an in the background goal of my vintage collecting heart. It's never been a goal I have put a particularly large amount of energy and effort into. If I'm being frank, I've never really put any energy and effort into it. I was recently able to finally cross that desire off of my long-term needs list by happenstance when the below crossed by my eBay screen and I jumped at the chance.

I've been buying and posting a lot of Spalding Baseball Guide Pages as they are affordable, oddball, and often allow a bunch of players to be acquired at once. It's the perfect combination of qualities for my collecting tastes and I went back to the well once more for this Thorpe.

Pairing the multi-sport generational athletic talent with John McGraw, Fred "Boner" Merkle, Red Faber, and others, this is the perfect piece to scratch my need for a Wa-Tho-Huk itch. While there is significant damage to the left-hand side, Jim's image and name are completely untouched.

It's a wonderful addition to my vintage collection.