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Little League memories and lost youth come to the fore on the occasion of the death of our writer's old coach.

A son of Jim Thorpe is suing the Pennsylvania town that bears his father's name over the remains of the Native American often called the 20th century's greatest athlete.

The International Olympic Committee announces that Jim Thorpe will be posthumously re-awarded the gold medals he won in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics with a world record score of 8,412 points, beating silver medalist Hugo Wieslander of Sweden by 688 points. Thorpe is the only athlete to ever win Olympic gold in both the decathlon and pentathlon.