Score a collectible Jim Thorpe bobblehead: Fri., 8/2!

Get to the Friday, August 2 game early and score a limited edition Jim Thorpe bobblehead, presented by Ohio Lottery! The first 2,000 fans through the gates will get a bobblehead as part of Toledo Baseball History Weekend. Thorpe played with the Toledo Mud Hens in 1921, where he batted .358 with 181 hits.

In a poll of sports fans conducted by ABC Sports, Thorpe was voted the Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century out of 15 other athletes including Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Wayne Gretzky, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan.

Jim Thorpe won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon. He was a first team all-american college football player in 1911 and 1912 at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, leading his team to the National Collegiate Championship. In 1913, Thorpe began a career in professional baseball with the New York Giants and professional football with the Pine Village Pros (pre-NFL). Thorpe played professional baseball until 1922 and professional football until 1928. He was inducted into the charter class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.