How Did Jim Torke Considered The Greatest Athlete?

Jim Thorpe was considered the greatest athlete in the world, winning four of the five events, losing only the javelin. In the decathlon Thorpe set an Olympic mark of 8,413 points that would stand for two decades. A half year later charges against Thorpe for professionalism led to Thorpe’s confession that he had been paid to play baseball in North Carolina in 1909 and 1910. After AAU and the American Olympic Committee declared Thorpe a professional, they asked Thorpe to return the medals won at the Olympics, and erased his name from the record books. Thorpe almost immediately signed a large $6,000 per year, three year contract with the New York Giants. Outside of athletics, Thorpe’s life had much more loss than two gold medals. Besides losing his twin brother Charles when he was nine years old, his mother died of blood poisoning before he was a teenager. Four years later after thorpe entered carlisle, his father died. His marriage to Iva Miller in 1913, their first son died at the age of four from polio,. Twice divorced, he had one
The Great War had ended the previous Fall, the year was 1919. The Black Sox scandal began with the World Series in October. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team supposedly conspired to lose to the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds won five to three at a time when the series could go to nine games. The scandal almost a year later became public. IN August 1921, a jury found the eight men innocent. The new commissioner of MLB banned them from professional baseball for the rest of their lives. Charles Comiskey chose not to investigate after hearing rumors of a fix circulation after the series. They couldn't be Charged because documents were stolen and bribes were paid. I say they all shouldn’t of been punished because they all weren’t involved and they got out before the series. Shoelaces Joe Jackson hit in the .300s so how could that come across as him being involved, it was the highest hitting streak in the world