Babe
Imagine you're a little girl in the 30's and 40's. What do you play? Dolls, house, cook with Mom? Not Babe Didrikson. As a little girl she was playing basketball, softball, baseball, and other sports. In her life she played basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, track and field, bowling, diving and swimming, pool and volleyball. People looked at her as a tomboy and "unladylike." She didn't care. She once quoted, "Before I was even into my teens I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived." Born Mildred Ella, she was named Babe after hitting five home runs in one baseball game. A reporter once asked her, "Is there anything you don't play?" "Yea," s
After her junior year she dropped out and got a job in Dallas as a stenographer at the Employers Casualty Company which sponsored a basketball team named Dallas Golden Cyclones. She married George Zaharias in December of 1938. Most girls liked her, but were sometimes afraid of her roughness. When she married him, it ended the dispute about her being a guy. She was just outstanding at everything she did. "As far as I can remember I played with boys rather than girls," she once told a reporter. In 1931 they won the national AAU championship. She was selected all- American and led the Cyclones to a national title. She played mainly basketball in her high school career. She is still recognized today as the best women athlete of the century. Later in her career in golf she was diagnosed with cancer. Her last major victory was the Tampa Open in '55. She became a premier woman's track and field player in the nation! After her Golden Cyclone career she was invited to the 1932 Olympics. She gave women a lot of rights and respect.
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