On May 24, 1984, the United States Post Office issued a 20-cent stamp featuring the image of the legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe. The bittersweet layer to this commemorative stamp is that it arrived as part of a long, posthumous battle to restore Thorpe’s tarnished athletic legacy. After dominating the 1912 Olympics, Thorpe was stripped of his gold medals when it was discovered he had played two seasons of minor league baseball for minimal expense money, violating strict amateurism rules of the era. The release of the stamp followed a massive, decades-long campaign by his family and supporters, culminating in 1983 when the International Olympic Committee restored his official records and delivered replica medals to his children. In a final, long-overdue correction nearly four decades later, the IOC went even further in 2022, recognizing Thorpe once again as the sole gold medalist in his 1912 events, fully reclaiming the honor that had been taken from him.