Jim Thorpe - 1984

Don Bloom

Ex-A-Cal cachet

Don J Kapner

HM (Hank Mezzack) cachet

Tom Mulcahy cachet

Fleetwood cachet

G. Alexander

BSA-4, signed by Whitey Wietelman, who was the batboy for the Zanesville Grays in 1925. Jim Thorpe played on the Grays and is pictured in the back row. Wietelman would go on to play professionally for the Boston Braves.

unofficial B Free Franklin, Philadelphia first day postmark

Generic Philadelphia cachet from New View, Merchantville, NJ

featuring an outline of Independence Hall fill with image so f Philadelphia, including the Flyers, 76ers, Zoo, Liberty Bell, Eagles and the Phillies at the top of the image

Jim Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma. He attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlise, Pa, where he earned All-American honors in football. A natural athlete, Thorpe gained fame for his success in the 1912 Olympics. He played football for 6-teams in the NFL eventually serving as the first President of the American Professional Football Association, which would become the NFL. Many of the cachet designs for the Thorpe stamp issued in 1984 show him as an Olympian or football player.

Thorpe also played in baseball signing his first contract with the New York Giants in 1913 playing through 1915 and again in 1917-1919. Thorpe also played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1917 and the Boston Braves in 1919.

Above are some of the cachets that depict Thorpe as a baseball player..

additionally Collins produced a cachet for the Oklahoma stamps depicting several famous Okies, including Thorpe as a baseball player...