Jim Thorpe

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Some that are legends, others mirror here say, but also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you. We're speaking tonight from Chicago. We're in Chicago and root to California to broadcast the United States Golf Championship.

But here, here in Chicago tonight, our guest is America's most famous athlete, Jim Thorpe. However, before we present Jim Thorpe, here is Real One, part trait of Chicago. Tonight, as you know, we are broadcasting from Chicago.

It was right here in Chicago that one of the strangest sports stories of all time took place. For this is the story of one of the most tragic days in history. A day that Chicago will never forget.

But to begin our story, we must go back many years to a little town in Wisconsin. A town named Pestigo. Pestigo, Wisconsin had a population of 6,000 people. In October the 8th of 1871, a baseball team from Chicago came to the tiny town of Pestigo to play a game of baseball.

For a few innings, that game was just another baseball game. But then suddenly something happened. for the captain of the Chicago baseball team, connected for a long home run that sailed far over the rival of Fielder's head.