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	Heroine Worship: Babe Zaharias, Most Valuable Player
		first heard about Babe Zaharias from my mother, who couldn't have been less of a sports fan; though she alluded mysteriously to athletic glory in her youth, by the time I was born she was resolutely sedentary and took all her exercise at the ironing board.
		Zaharias got her nickname not from her looks or her youthfulness but because as a young girl in Beaumont, Texas, she could hit a baseball farther than the boys.
		Zaharias developed a grooved athletic swing reminiscent of Lee Trevino's, and she was so strong off the tee that a fellow Texan, the great golfer Byron Nelson, once said that he knew of only eight men who could outdrive her.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/magazine4/articles/zaharias.html (645 words)

	Babe Zaharias
		Participating in numerous sports in which she excelled and set several records, Zaharias is recognized as the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the twentieth century.
		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.
		During World War II, Babe Zaharias gave golf exhibitions to raise money for war bonds and agreed to abstain from professional athletics for three years in order to regain her amateur status.
	www.edwardsly.com /zaharias.htm (1778 words)

	Babe Zaharias Summary
		Babe Zaharias was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the oil town of Port Arthur, Texas, and acquired her nickname "Babe" (after Babe Ruth) after she hit five home runs in a single baseball game.
		Zaharias had her greatest year in 1950 when she completed the Grand Slam of the three women's majors of the day, the US Open, the Titleholders Championship, and the Western Open, in addition to leading the money-list.
		Zaharias developed a grooved athletic swing reminiscent of Lee Trevino's, and she was so strong off the tee that a fellow Texan, the great golfer Byron Nelson, once said that he knew of only eight men who could outdrive her.
	www.bookrags.com /Babe_Zaharias (2429 words)

	Babe Zaharias
		She was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of Port Arthur, Texas and acquired her nickname "Babe" (after Babe Ruth) after she hit five home runs in a single baseball game.
		Zaharias had her greatest year in 1950 when she completed the Grand Slam of the US Open, the Titleholders, and the Western Open, in addition to leading the money-list.
		Her cancer reappeared in 1955 and limited her schedule to eight events, but she managed two wins which were her final ones in competitive golf.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/ba/babe_zaharias.html (521 words)

	Museum of the Gulf Coast - Babe Didrickson Zaharias
		Nicknamed "Babe," she was at 19 a championship basketball player, playing forward for the Golden Cyclones women's basketball team, the national champs from 1930 to 1932.
		Babe also turned in an amazing performance at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles where she won two gold medals and a silver, breaking world records in the javelin toss, high jump, softball throw, and 80-meter hurdles.
		Babe picked up a second nickname, the "Texas Tomboy." While this behavior could be considered amusing, even charming, in a young girl, as Babe grew older she drew more and more disapproval for her "unwomanly" activities.
	www.museumofthegulfcoast.org /Content/Personalities/Sports_Legends/Babe_Didrickson_Zaharias (466 words)

	Babe Zaharias Golf Course
		In 1926 the golf course that is now affectionately known as "The Babe" was opened in northwest Tampa as Forest Hills Golf and Country Club.
		In September of 1956 "Babe" died of cancer in a hospital in Galveston, Texas.
		With these changes our goal wass to continue to offer a golf course that is challenging for all levels of play and still remain the user-friendly course many of you have grown to know and love.
	www.babezahariasgc.com /content.php?link=course_history.php (295 words)

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		Zaharias was born Mildred Ella Didrikson in Port Arthur, Tex., on June 26, 1914.
		Zaharias, wealthy and well-known by his wrestling tag-name, "The Crying Greek from Cripple Creek," was...
		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...
	www.lycos.com /info/mildredbabe-didrikson-zaharias.html (417 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.
		Babe devoted herself to perfecting her golf game with the same ferocity that she brought to the Olympic high hurdles and javelin toss.
		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)

	GolfDigest.com - One amazing Babe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Babe loved being bigger than life and she loved New York newspaper writers such as Grantland Rice and Paul Gallico, who made certain she always was.
		Babe might tee off on No. 1 and, regardless of where she stood on the board, turn to the gallery and say, "Come on, folks, follow me and I'll show you how to play this game." And she'd suck up the crowd like a Shop-Vac.
		At the funeral Babe was dressed in a pair of blue pajamas that would have matched her eyes, the only part of her that stayed the same right to the end.
	www.golfdigest.com /newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/gw20030502babe.html (2990 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...
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	Official Website of the 2004 U.S. Women's Open
		Babe, the great athlete, was intimidated by what she regarded as fine people.
		Babe, minus her amateur status, became what she called, "a business-woman golfer," and toured the country in exhibitions, most notably with Gene Sarazen.
		With Zaharias' financial support, Babe could now live a life of ease but she was driven to compete again and she sat out the period of years required to regain her amateur status.
	www.uswomensopen.com /2004/press/whatta-gal.html (2147 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias USGA Exhibit To Open At Golf House \| United States Golf Association (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Participating in numerous sports in which she excelled and set several records, Zaharias is recognized as the greatest female athlete of the first half of the 20th century.
		Zaharias mastered tennis, played organized baseball and softball, and was an expert diver and bowler.
		Her victory in the 1954 Women's Open is even more extraordinary as Babe had been diagnosed with colon cancer, and had undergone a radical surgery only 14 months prior to the championship.
	www.usga.org /news/2004/march/zaharias.html (754 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Achievements
		Babe placed in seven events, winning five outright and tying for first in another, for her 30 points.
		Babe won the Womenâs Trans-Mississippi Amateur in 1946 and the womenâs North and South Amateur in 1947.
		Babe was the leading money-winner on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour for four years in a row â“ 1948 through 1951.
	www.babedidriksonzaharias.org /page_two.cfm (607 words)

	Spike on Golf: USGA honors Babe Zaharias with exhibit in Far Hills, N.J., museum
		Zaharias was only 14 months removed from colon cancer surgery when she won the Open, the topper to an athletics career that remains unmatched by any male or female athlete in the history of American sport.
		Zaharias, a co-founder of the LPGA in 1950, was the first American to win the Ladies British Amateur Open and the first to win that title and the Women's U.S. Amateur Championship.
		The Babe lost her battle to cancer at age 45 in 1956, but her story of courage is one that is always worth celebrating.
	www.pga.com /news/features/spikeongolf/spike_on_golf062104.cfm (915 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias \| LPGA Players (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the most interesting facts about Babe was that she had mastered tennis, gained world fame in track and field, played organized baseball and softball, was an All-American in basketball, bowled, roller-skated, and was an expert diver.
		Babe set a record of 12 shots as the biggest victory margin in the 1954 Women’s Open, this was after having undergone on hernia operation in 1951 and a major colostomy operation for cancer in 1953.
		Babe won the first event and it was not long after that she underwent her colostomy operation.
	www.ladyogolf.com /203/babe-didrikson-zaharias (375 words)

	Fifty years after her death, Zaharias still remembered \| The Bryan-College Station Eagle
		From the time she was a teen until her death, Zaharias inspired not only Southeast Texans, but sports followers all over the nation and across the world in so many mind-boggling ways.
		In one of her more phenomenal achievements, Zaharias competed as a one-person team in the 1932 Women's National AAU Championships in Chicago and won it with 30 points.
		Within perhaps 5-iron distance of the No. 11 tee box at Beaumont Country Club, where she won the inaugural Babe Zaharias Open in 1953, is the headstone upon which are inscribed these words: "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you played the game.
	www.theeagle.com /stories/092906/texas_20060929038.php (751 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias
		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 died at John Sealy Hospital on September 27, 1956, at the age of forty-five, and was buried in Beaumont.
		She established a national audience for women's golf and was the first woman ever to serve as a resident professional at a golf club.
	www.famoustexans.com /babedidrikson.htm (1050 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		Babe Didrikson, the female athletic phenomenon of the century, was the child of Norwegian immigrants.
		In fact, in the 1920s the trend was toward the elimination of interscholastic competition for girls, because of its "undue stress" and "morbid social influences." In many high schools all but intramural sports disappeared, and not until the 1970s would girls' high school competition be restored.
		After Babe switched to track and field and collected gold medals at the 1932 Olympics, her fame enabled her to barnstorm the country with a team called "Babe Didrikson's All Americans." She excelled at every sport she tried, but she combined her natural talent with hard work.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=177 (358 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around female athlete of all time.
		Babe Zaharias was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was changed to reflect the Norwegian spelling of her name instead of the Swedish spelling) 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.
		Zaharias even won a tournament named after her, the Babe Zaharias Open of Beaumont, Texas.
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	Babe Didrickson Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	idcs0200.lib.iup.edu /~cat/Pages/bdzbio.html (229 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)

	ESPN.com: Didrikson was a woman ahead of her time
		Babe spent more time with good friend Betty Dodd, a young golfer who was a natural athlete and had no interest in looking feminine.
		Babe single-handedly won the 1932 AAU championships, which served as Olympic qualifying, on July 16 in Evanston, Ill. The sole representative of Employers Casualty, she scored 30 points, eight more than the runner-up team, which had 22 athletes.
		Also, while Babe had jumped in the same manner throughout the competition, nothing was said to her about her style being illegal.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014147.html (1369 words)

	Girls Explore - Babe Didrikson Zaharias Print
		Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was a woman with unending persistence which led her to achieve many honors in the world of sports, some not ever accomplished by any other person, man or woman.
		Babe not only did track and field, but also other sports such as basketball where she was named "All-American" three times.
		With this print, your daughter can appreciate that even with all of her talent, what really made Babe great was her passion, commitment, and the way she never gave up, no matter what the obstacle.
	store.girls-explore.com /babeprt.html (320 words)

	Their Stamp on History: Babe Zaharias (1911-1956)
		Unquestionably, Babe Zaharias was one of the most talented female athletes the world has ever seen.
		Born Mildred Ella Didriksen in 1911, Babe Zaharias was an unabashed tomboy.
		Babe Zaharias’ most famous role was as a golfer in the the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.
	www.stamponhistory.com /2005/12/12/0001 (292 words)

	Babe Zaharias
		Babe Ruth, Jim Brown, Michael Jordan, Pele, Wayne Gretzky, Maurice Richard et bien d'autres athlètes ont brillé dans leur discipline respective.
		Rapidement, on lui a attribué le surnom de Babe parce qu'elle jouait au baseball dans des ligues de garçons et était celle qui frappait le mieux.
		Babe Zaharias faisait les délices des journalistes avec des déclarations originales qui faisaient la "Une" des journaux.
	www.homestead.com /samedi/zaharias.html (1028 words)

	Triad Golf Today Magazine: - May 2001 - Babe Was a Tiger on the LPGA Tour
		Her only tournament miscue during the stretch was a match-play loss in the 1946 U.S. Women’s Open, held in late August in Spokane, Wash. She came back to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur and the Texas Women’s Open that fall, then reeled off 12 straight in 1947.
		Babe might well be different in a world of the Internet, autograph hounds and corporate sponsorship.
		Babe made a name for herself before becoming a golf champion in the 1932 Olympics, winning two gold medals.
	www.triadgolf.com /May2001/majorplayers_babe.htm (954 words)

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