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Old 01-26-2012, 11:15 AM
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Scott, here is the only known (at least to my knowledge) photo of Thorpe w/ baseball teammate from his time with the Rocky Mount baseball team.

The funny thing about that whole story is that he didn't play "semi-pro" he played played full-on professional baseball for Rocky Mount, NC and Fayetteville, AR.

This RPPC came from the estate of David Creagan (his teammate on Rocky Mount) and it features Jim w/ their other teammate A. J. Dussault (and for good measure also attached is Dussault's T210 card--you can't mistake that head of hair for anyone else!). And the two signed it on the back (this would have likely been the "smoking gun" in the Thorpe investigation if they had found it back 98 years ago...)

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