This Day in Baseball: Thorpe Signs with New York

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

After turning down an offer from the last-place Browns, Jim Thorpe signed with the New York Giants, the defending NL champs, on February 1, 1913.  Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Nation native American, compiled a lifetime .252 batting average during his six seasons in the majors.

Jim Thorpe (The Sporting News)