Frank Thomas

Notable Sports Figures
restoration of Thorpe’s amateur
status, 4:1615
Samaranch, Juan Antonio,
3:1394–1395
International Skating Center, 3:1231
International Tennis Players
Association, 1:65
International Women’s Professional
Softball Association, 2:796
Interracial relationships
Becker, Boris, 1:111–112
Johnson, Jack, 2:765
Iowa State University, 2:523–524
Ironman competition
Newby-Fraser, Paula,
3:1136–1137
Smyers, Karen, 3:1500
Irvan, Ernie, 1:40
Irvin, Michael, 1:17, 2:731,
2:731–734
Islam
Abdul-Jabbar’s conversion to,
1:11
Ali’s conversion to, 1:34
Ito, Midori, 4:1814
Ivanisevic, Goran, 1:16
Iverson, Allen, 2:734, 2:734–737
Jackson, Bo, 2:739, 2:739–742
Jackson, Jesse, 3:1326
Jackson, Peter, 1:333
Jackson, Phil, 1:75, 2:747,
2:747–749, 3:1248
Jackson, Reggie, 2:749–752, 2:750,
3:1016–1017, 3:1303
Jackson, “Shoeless” Joe, 1:288–289,
2:742, 2:742–747, 2:744
Jackson State College, 3:1215–1216
Jacksonville Tars, 1:4
Jacobs, David, 2:922, 2:923
Jacobs, Helen Hull, 4:1786–1787
Jacobs, Joe, 3:1427
Jacobs, Mike, 2:972
Jager, Tom, 1:145
Jagr, Jaromir, 2:752–756, 2:753
Jakes, Thomas D., Sr., 3:1407
James, LeBron, 4:1692
Jansen, Dan, 2:756, 2:756–758
Japanese baseball players
exodus of, 3:1571
Nomo, Hideo, 3:1142–1144
Oh, Sadaharu, 3:1154
Suzuki, Ichiro, 3:1569–1572
Japanese internment camps, 4:1813
Jarrett, Ned, 3:1234
Jarvis, Mike, 1:464
Jenner, Bruce, 2:758–762, 2:759,
2:761
Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin
(documentary), 2:586
Jewish athletes
Greenberg, Hank, 2:580–582
Koufax, Sandy, 2:866–868
Mayer, Helene, 3:1026–1028
Schayes, Dolph, 2:1420–1422
Spitz, Mark, 3:1509,
3:1511–1512
Jim Pierce Rule, 3:1243
Jim Thorpe-All American (movie),
4:1614, 4:1615
Johannson, Ingemar, 3:1210
Johnson, Ben, 1:80, 2:506,
2:762–763, 2:931
Johnson, Bob, 2:915
Johnson, Jack, 2:763–766, 2:764,
2:971
Johnson, Jimmy, 1:20
Johnson, Judy, 2:546
Cumulative Subject Index
Johnson, Junior, 2:766, 2:766–768
Johnson, Magic, 1:149, 2:768–772,
2:769, 2:771, 3:1214
Johnson, Michael, 1:80, 2:772–776,
2:773, 2:775
Johnson, Rafer, 2:776–778, 2:777
Johnson, Randy, 2:778–781, 2:779,
3:1424, 3:1425
Johnson, Suzen, 2:549
Johnson, Walter, 1:63–64
Johnston, Bill, 4:1618–1619
Johnston, Jimmy, 2:972
Jones, Bobby, 2:781–784, 2:782
Jones, Janet, 2:591
Jones, Jerry, 2:900
Jones, K. C., 1:349
Jones, Kevin, 2:784–786, 2:785
Jones, Marion, 2:786, 2:786–790
Jordan, James, 2:791, 2:792
Jordan, Michael, 2:790, 2:790–795,
2:793
Carter compared to, 1:262
commercial with Mia Hamm,
2:632
Pippen and, 3:1247–1248, 3:1250
Joyce, Joan, 2:795, 2:795–797
Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, 2:797–801,
2:798, 2:800
Jump shift, 2:666–667
Jungle Jim films, 4:1741
Junior Seau Foundation, 3:1447
Juventus of Turin, 4:1831
Kahanamoku, Duke, 2:803,
2:803–806
Kaline, Al, 2:806, 2:806–809
Kansas City A’s
Hunter, Jim “Catfish,” 2:727
1875
Cumulative Subject Index