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	ESPN.com: Didrikson was a woman ahead of her time
		Babe didn't seem to have much interest in men until she was swept off her feet when she was paired with George Zaharis at the 1938 Los Angeles Open.
		Though Babe wrote in her autobiography that she was born on June 26, 1914, it seems as if the correct year is 1911, which is what it says on her tombstone and on a baptismal certificate.
		While Babe continued to golf - as well as play as many as 17 sets of tennis in one day and starring on the bowling lanes - it was not until 1943 that she was reinstated as an amateur.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014147.html (1369 words)

	The "Texas Tomboy": The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias \| Susan E. Cayleff \| OAH Magazine of ...
		Babe's wish to present a happy front was most likely due to her desire to keep the ugly innuendos of years past from reemerging.
		Didrikson furthered opportunities for others in women's sports, although not because she was gender conscious and sought to improve opportunities for others that followed after her.
		Babe's life as she actually lived it allows the historian and student of history a unique chance to unravel the palpable opportunities open to--and extreme limitations encountered by--women athletes and atypical women in general during this era.
	www.oah.org /pubs/magazine/sport/cayleff.html (3078 words)

	Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Throughout her adult life she was known as Babe Didrikson, taking the name "Babe" from the sports hero Babe Ruth and the spelling of her surname, Didrikson, to emphasize that she was of Norwegian rather than Swedish ancestry.
		Didrikson was a poor student, usually passing only enough courses to remain eligible for athletic competition.
		Didrikson entered the meet as the sole member of the Golden Cyclone team and by herself won the national women's team championship by scoring thirty points.
	www.galeschools.com /womens_history/bio/didriksonzaharias_b.htm (1790 words)

	ESPN Classic - More Info on Babe Didrikson
		Didrikson also took first in the shot put (39 feet, 6¼ inches) and long jump (17 feet, 6 5/8 inches) and finished fourth in the discus.
		Didrikson and other sources claimed she won 17 consecutive golf tournaments in 1946 and 1947.
		When Babe was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century, she received 319 first-place votes and 34 for second of the 361 cast in the AP poll.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/000804babedidriksonadd.html (807 words)

	The Other Babe, Babe Didrikson.
		The Babe, who earned her nickname from sandlot baseball companions who thought she batted like Babe Ruth, was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on June 26, 1911, to Norwegian immigrants Ole and Hannah Didriksen.
		Didrikson began to concentrate on golf, and after winning tournament championships easily over what might be called "country club competition," the losers fought back by removing her amateur status.
		The Babe, whose full name was Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias, was buried in Beaumont, which also hosts a museum containing memorabilia of Didrikson career as the outstanding woman athlete of the twentieth century.
	www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/Babe-Didrikson-AM905.htm (446 words)

	Great American Sports Fans - Your Online Sports Community
		Mildred Babe Didrikson was born in 1913 in Port Arthur, Texas of Norwegian immigrant parents but the family soon moved to nearby Beaumont where she was raised.
		Babe consented and made the trip to Evanston where she signed up to compete in eight different and astonishingly varied track and field events.
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias was voted by the Associated Press as the world's greatest female athlete for the period from 1900-1950.
	www.gasf.com /article.asp?id=babe_Didrikson (890 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Wednesday December 01, 1999 04:23 PM
		Didrikson came to national attention later in '32 during Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, winning gold medals and breaking her own world records in both the javelin and the 80-meter hurdles.
		Babe, as Didrikson was known because of her Ruthian clouts in softball, was instead an outspoken and relentless self-promoter who reveled in the decidedly unladylike world of sports.
		Didrikson was still at the top of her game in 1953, when she was diagnosed with rectal cancer and underwent surgery.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /siforwomen/top_100/2 (553 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias, athlete, was born on June 26, 1911, in Port Arthur, Texas, the sixth of seven children of Norwegian immigrants Ole Nickolene and Hannah Marie (Olson) Didriksen.
		She won gold medals for the javelin and hurdles and, despite clearing the same height as the top finisher in the high jump, was awarded the silver medal because she went over the bar head first, a foul at that time.
		Didrikson's exuberant confidence, self-congratulatory manner, and cultivation of her celebrity status irritated some fellow athletes, but she was the most popular female golfer of her own time and since.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/ZZ/fza1.html (1118 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- The Babe
		Didrikson, in fact, was paired for the first round with a Presbyterian minister and a flamboyant professional wrestler, George Zaharias.
		It wasn't until Didrikson helped form the LPGA in 1948 that she had a true circuit on which to make a professional living, and by all accounts the Babe should get the biggest heap of credit for sparking interest in the women's game.
		Didrikson further muddied the media's perception when she developed a close relationship with a young golfer, Betty Dodd, who was 20 years her junior.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/golf/20030520-9999_mz1s20babe.html (1743 words)

	Athlete Profile:Babe Didrikson Zaharias
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias was driven to excel and so she did, at virtually every athletic endeavor she attempted.
		Between 1930 and ‘32 Didrikson, now known as Babe, in honor of Babe Ruth, was an All-American basketball player and led the Casualty Insurance Company Golden Cyclones to the 1931 national AAU championship.
		Shortly thereafter at the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles, Didrikson won gold medals in the javelin and the 80-meter hurdles and just missed a third medal in the high jump when her jumping technique was ruled illegal (she wound up being placed second).
	womensportsonline.com /babe.shtml (793 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias Handwritten Letter: Golf Links to the Past :: Home to Bobby Jones, Gary Player, Golf History, ...
		Born in Beaumont, Texas on June 26, 1911, Mildred Babe Didrikson was, like her six brothers and sisters, required by her carpenter father to exercise and participate in some sport from an early age.
		Babe was the sports phenomenon of the thirties and forties, astounding crowds on both sides of the Atlantic with her athletic performances.
		Babe set the stage for the rest of the century and the girls and women who followed her onto the playing field.
	www.golfspast.com /page/E/PROD/AUF/D559 (309 words)

	Mariah Burton Nelson: Babe Didrikson Zaharias Book Review
		Dodd roomed with Babe on the circuit of the fledgling Ladies Pro Golf Association (which Babe co-founded), lived with George and Babe for the last six years of Babe’s life, and moved into the hospital to nurse Babe as she died of colon cancer.
		Maybe Dodd was sworn by Babe to secrecy but indirectly or nonverbally told Cayleff that Babe was her lover, and a lifelong lesbian.
		Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Babe’s successor as the world’s greatest female athlete, was for a while overshadowed by her flashy, feminine, long-fingernailed, less successful sister-in-law, Florence Griffith-Joyner.
	www.mariahburtonnelson.com /Articles/BabeDidriksonZaharias.html (1490 words)

	The My Hero Project - Mildred "Babe" Didriksonb_didrikson
		Didrikson did very well in track, which brought her to the 1932 Olympics.
		Didrikson entered the British Women's Amateur Tournament and was the first American women to win it.
		Babe Didrikson is my hero because I am an athlete, and I admire her courage and determination.
	myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=b_didrikson (393 words)

	CNN/SI - Golf Plus - SI Flashback: Farewell to the Babe - Friday December 03, 1999 01:09 AM
		While it is true that none of the Babe's track and field or Olympic records, with the exception of the baseball throw, are still on the books today, no girl before or since had matched her record of events won in a diversity of sports.
		When the Babe leveled on a sister athlete and husked, "Ah', gonna whup yo" it wasn't brag (though a element of gamesmanship was involved).
		Nor must it be forgotten that when the Babe had finished this grueling struggle, she was the darling of the Scots and Britons in the gallery, as well as the pet of the whole village of Gullane.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /golf/news/1999/12/02/didrikson_flashback (1792 words)

	Susan E. Cayleff / Babe
		As a major step in her makeover, Babe already had married George Zaharias, a wrestling promoter who was a vital partner in her constant efforts at self-promotion.
		Babe is a comprehensive, in-depth biography of a woman who was a great athlete at a time when it was extremely difficult for a woman to be her own person.
		Babe allows her to be all the hero--and all the human being--she was meant to be.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s95/cayleff.html (421 words)

	Babe Zaharias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around athlete of all time.
		Babe Zaharias was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the oil town of Port Arthur, Texas, and acquired the nickname "Babe" (after Babe Ruth) after she hit five home runs in a single baseball game.
		The Babe Didrikson Zaharias Memorial Center stands as a museum to her achievements in Beaumont, Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babe_Didrikson (1403 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Excellence in Many Forms
		The neighborhood boys were so impressed with how far she could hit the ball that they nicknamed her "Babe," after Babe Ruth, a pro baseball player who lots of long home runs.
		The nickname stuck, and Mildred was Babe thereafter.
		first, she was recognized as Babe all over again, for the long drives that she hit with golf clubs, just like the long hits she used to have with baseballs all those years ago, that gave her her nickname.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/ushistory/babezaharias1.htm (422 words)

	babe - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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		Didrikson, Babe (1911-1956), American athlete, who dominated a number of sports at the highest levels in an era that offered limited athletic...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=babe (154 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Didrikson, Babe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Didrikson, Babe DIDRIKSON, BABE [Didrikson, Babe] (Mildred Didrikson), 1913-56, American athlete, generally considered the greatest woman athlete of modern times, b.
		Port Arthur, Tex. At an early age Babe Didrikson excelled in basketball, baseball, and track.
		From left are: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman, Mary Cassatt, Amelia Earhart and, in front, Dot Richardson.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03647.html (206 words)

	Amazon.fr : Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Livres en anglais: Susan E. Cayleff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the premier female athlete of her era, beginning with two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics and extending through a professional golf career that ended just before her death in 1956.
		Unable to acknowledge her sexuality, Babe was forced to manufacture a palatable lifestyle for public consumption; hence, her marriage to professional wrestler George Zaharias.
		In researching her subject, Cayleff relies on Didrikson's sanitized autobiography, subsequent biographies, newspaper accounts, and interviews with family and friends, including the woman with whom Babe shared an intimate relationship, fellow golfer Betty Dodd.
	www.amazon.fr /Babe-Life-Legend-Didrikson-Zaharias/dp/0252017935 (405 words)

	The Babe: Golf's greatest athlete. Didrikson Zaharias - Mildred Babe - Brief Article Golf Digest - Find Articles
		A nearly airtight case can be made that Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias is the most important figure in the history of women's golf, not to mention the most fascinating.
		If the brassy, self-promoting Babe were still around, she'd be her own noisiest advocate, bragging that she got the LPGA Tour going 50 years ago and also the USGA Women's Open.
		Babe's fame let her leverage sponsors as the LPGA struggled for a foothold in the sports economy, and led to the creation of the USGA Women's Open, in Corcoran's opinion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_8_51/ai_63411414 (711 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson is considered by many authorities to be the greatest all-round sportswoman in history.
		Had she been able to compete in more events, it is likely that Babe could have won medals in the discus throw, relay, and long jump.
		From 1948 to 1951, she was the leading money winner on the LPGA circuit, during the first four years of its existence, and she won 31 LPGA sanctioned events.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=87909 (217 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Babe Didrikson, Think Under Pressure ~ June 26 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Born poor on this day in Port Arthur, Texas, Mildred Ella Didrikson (1911-1956) was nicknamed Babe for her Ruth-like home run clouts at sandlot softball.
		Didrikson was competitive, self-confident, and an outspoken self-promoter at a time when women weren't supposed be cocky...or even sweat.
		A founder of the LPGA in 1950, she won 17 amateur golf tournaments in a row, a record that remains unbroken to this day by anyone, male or female.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /062600.htm (341 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias Biography (Athlete) — FactMonster.com
		Memorable Olympic Moments: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 1932 - Babe Didrickson competed in baseball, golf, and Olympics track and field by Mike Morrison In the...
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Babe Didrikson Zaharias Born: June 26, 1911 All-around athlete who was chosen AP Female Athlete of...
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Champion Athlete (Women of Achievement) by Elizabeth Lynn and R. Twombly
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/babedidriksonzaharias.html (388 words)

	Amazon.de: Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Women in American History): English Books: Susan E. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Babe fans will learn more about her, and scholars will be able to follow up on Cayleff's work through her extensive endnotes.
		Considering that Babe had a prominent adam's apple and was as stridently competitive in anything and everything in life as Ty Cobb, lesbianism did not exactly come as a shock to me.
		What's really surprising is that the author fails to prove her case: she interviewed the young woman golfer who moved in with Babe and her husband George Zaharias after George ballooned up to 400 pounds, but she never got around to asking her if she and Babe really did the nasty.
	www.amazon.de /Babe-Didrikson-Zaharias-American-History/dp/0252017935 (1183 words)

	Amazon.ca: Babe Didrikson: The Greatest All-Sport Athlete of All Time: Books: Susan Cayleff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The author, whose adult biography Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1995), earned a Pulitzer nomination, shows us a gifted, driven, and often lonely woman who polarized the press and wowed the fans as easily as she alienated teammates and competitors.
		This is a franker depiction of Babe's life than Russell Freedman gave readers in Babe Did rikson Zaharias (1999), with Cayleff acknowledging (without sensationalizing) that Zaharias' relationship with fellow golfer Betty Dodd was a sexual one.
		A gold medal Olympian, Babe Didrikson, recently rated by ESPN as one of the top ten athletes of the twentieth century, excelled at every sport she tried: running, jumping, javelin throwing, swimming, basketball, tennis, golf, and baseball.
	www.amazon.ca /Babe-Didrikson-Greatest-All-Sport-Athlete/dp/1573241946 (680 words)

	Babe (1975) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias (autobiography This Life I've Led)
		"Babe" was on TV that evening and the film has always stuck with me. The acting is perfectly done and the subject matter treated with great sensitivity.
		Finally got to see it again tonight and the memories came flooding back - of me as a 9 year old anxiously waiting for his parents to come home while worrying about the fate of a great golfer and why this disease called cancer was so unfair.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072677 (270 words)

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