Editing Jim Thorpe (section)

=== Basketball ===
[[File:Jim Thorpe WFI PC front detail.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Thorpe holding a basketball wearing a World Famous Indians jersey|Thorpe with a basketball, 1927]]

Most of Thorpe's biographers were unaware of his basketball career until a ticket that documented his time in professional basketball was discovered in an old book in 2005.<ref name="ticket">{{Cite web |title=History Detectives – Episode 10, 2005: Jim Thorpe Ticket, Jamestown, New York |url=http://www-tc.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/static/media/transcripts/2011-04-27/310_jimthorpe.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814205913/http://www-tc.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/static/media/transcripts/2011-04-27/310_jimthorpe.pdf |archive-date=August 14, 2022 |access-date=May 25, 2017 |publisher=pbs.org}}</ref> By 1926, he was the main feature of the [[World Famous Indians]] of [[La Rue, Ohio]], a traveling basketball team.{{Sfn|Buford|2012|pp=253–254}} The team barnstormed for at least two years (1927–28) in multiple states.<ref name="ticket" /> Although stories about Thorpe's team were published in some local newspapers at the time, his basketball career is not well-documented.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pennington |first=Bill |date=March 29, 2005 |title=Jim Thorpe and a Ticket to Serendipity |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/sports/othersports/jim-thorpe-and-a-ticket-to-serendipity.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=May 25, 2017 |work=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref>

For a brief time in 1913, he was considering going into professional [[Ice hockey|hockey]] for the Tecumseh Hockey Club in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 4, 1913 |title=Jim Thorpe may take up professional hockey |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/79823061/ |access-date=November 23, 2020 |work=The Liberal Democrat |location=Liberal, Kansas |page=5}}</ref>