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	Babe Zaharias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias (1395 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.
		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.edwardsly.com /zaharias.htm (1778 words)

	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.
		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.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014147.html (1369 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.
		Portrayed as a courageous survivor in the press, Didrikson played for cancer fund benefits and maintained her usual buoyant public persona, but in June 1955 she was forced to reenter John Sealy Hospitalqv at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for further diagnosis.
		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.famoustexans.com /babedidrikson.htm (1050 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias
		Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias was voted the outstanding woman athlete of the century in a 1950 Associated Press poll.
		Zaharias claimed she earned the nickname 'Babe' for Babe Ruth after hitting five home runs in one baseball game...
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Babe Didrikson Zaharias Born: June 26, 1911 All-around athlete who was chosen AP Female Athlete of...
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/babedidriksonzaharias.html (324 words)

	Athlete Profile:Babe Didrikson Zaharias
		Babe Didrikson Zaharias was driven to excel and so she did, at virtually every athletic endeavor she attempted.
		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).
		Zaharias helped clear a path for those who have followed her for the past 80 years.
	www.womensportsonline.com /babe.shtml (793 words)

	Babe Didrickson Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	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)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias USGA Exhibit To Open At Golf House \| United States Golf Association
		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)

	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)

	Babe Zaharias - PGATOUR.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Zaharias is a founding member of the LPGA and one of the first four inductees into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1951.
		Zaharias was awarded the Vare Trophy in 1954 and the USGA Bobby Jones Award in 1957.
		Perhaps the greatest all-around athlete of all-time, Babe Zaharias was voted the Woman Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century in a poll conducted by the Associated Press and was named the Woman Athlete of the Year by Associated Press in 1931, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 and 1954.
	www.golfweb.com /u/ce/feature/0,1977,839863,00.html (359 words)

	Babe (1975) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It told the very simple story of Texan Babe Didrikson who was an Olympic athlete in the 30's and something of a womens' golf pioneer in the 40's-50's.
		Didrikson, then a fierce sense of independence and not wanting to show vulnerability- especially in the second act of the film when she fights cancer.
		While she plays sports alongside the men well, she longs to be as feminine as possible while courting future husband Zaharias (Clark's own future husband Alex Karras) A memorable scene shows her coming home from a beauty salon, transformed with hair and makeup, all along given encouragement by her prettier sister.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072677 (358 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)

	The My Hero Project - Mildred "Babe" 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.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=b_didrikson (865 words)

	USATODAY.com - Brash Babe wasn't afraid to challenge men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Zaharias, who was 33 when she played against the men in 1945, was a natural athlete who approached golf as just another form of entertainment.
		Zaharias, who died of cancer in 1956 at age 45, is considered by many as the greatest female athlete.
		According to the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation in Beaumont, Texas, Zaharias played and made the 36-hole cut in all three PGA Tour events in January 1945.
	usatoday.com /sports/golf/pga/2003-05-19-babe-didrikson-zaharias_x.htm (1015 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 (709 words)

	Search Results for "Babe ..."
		...to mean someone ignorant, inexperienced, helpless, or naive, as in the cliché a babe in the woods.
		Babe is also Standard English slang, meaning a sexually attractive...
		...Didrikson, Babe, (Mildred Didrikson) (de´driksn) (KEY), 1913-56, American athlete, generally considered the greatest woman athlete of modern times, b.
	bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?db=db&query=Babe+... (222 words)

	Memorable Olympic Moments: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 1932
		She won the shot put and long jump, and broke the world record in the javelin, the baseball throw, the 80-meter hurdles, and the high jump.
		At the age of 21, Babe competed in three events at the 1932 Olympics—the 80-meter hurdles, the javelin, and the high jump.
		Always ahead of her time, Babe's head crossed the bar before her body, much like the "Fosbury Flop" that is the popular style today.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/mm-zaharias.html (482 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		She placed in seven events, taking first place in five—shot put, javelin and baseball throws, eighty-meter hurdles, and long jump; she tied for first in the high jump and finished fourth in the discus throw.
		Didrikson resumed the lucrative routine of exhibition tours and endorsements, impressing audiences with smashing drives that regularly exceeded 240 yards.
		Portrayed as a courageous survivor in the press, Didrikson played for cancer fund benefits and maintained her usual buoyant public persona, but in June 1955 she was forced to reenter John Sealy Hospital
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/ZZ/fza1.html (1118 words)

	Amazon.fr : Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Livres en anglais: Susan E. Cayleff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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 (395 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: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	Babe Zaharias' Golf Swing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias, athlete, was born on June 26, 1911, in Port Arthur, Texas, the sixth of seven children of Norwegian immigrants.
		Didrikson competed in track and field, basketball, baseball, billiards, tennis, diving, and swimming.
		She was nicknamed "Babe" after Babe Ruth because of numerous home runs she hit playing baseball as a child.
	beauproductions.com /golfswingsws/babezaharias (461 words)

	The Sport Supplement: The Incredible Babe Didrikson Zaharias
		Babe was born Mildred Ella Didrikson in Port Arthur, Texas, on June 26, before women even had the vote.
		Babe qualified for five events at the 1932 Olympics, but women were only allowed to enter three.
		Babe had now entered a "genteel" sport and this was a big help to her image.
	www.thesportjournal.org /sport-supplement/vol12no3/05babe.asp (1121 words)

	Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias "Babe" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Babe was married to wrestler and sports promoter George Zaharias on December 23, 1938, and from then on, George managed his wife's career.
		In 1953, Babe was diagnosed with colon cancer.
		Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias will always be remembered for her was competitive spirit and ability to succeed in all of the sports she attempted.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/WH/mjs/mjs.htm (462 words)

	Babe Didrikson
		Port Arthur, Tex. At an early age Babe Didrikson excelled in basketball, baseball, and track.
		In 1932 she won five events, tied for first in another, and finished fourth in still another event in the National AAU track and field championships.
		She was the first American woman to win the British amateur title (1947), and after turning professional in 1947 she won 33 tournaments (including the U.S. Open in 1948, 1950, and 1954) before succumbing to cancer.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0815463.html (266 words)

	Amazon.com: Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion: Books: Russell Freedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He pays ample attention to Babe's extraordinary achievementsAe.g., her three world records in track and field at the 1932 Olympics; her record-setting golf career in the '40s and '50sAbut his book's greatest strength lies in his portrait of the person behind the athlete, a portrait that hums with the energy and vibrancy of Babe herself.
		As far back as she could remember, Babe Didrikson Zaharias lived only for sports, and she loved and excelled in them all.
		When asked if there was something she didn't play, Babe replied smiling: "dolls!" This intriguing book by Russell Freedman lets you in on the tragic and wonderful secrets in Babe Didrikson Zaharias's life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395633672?v=glance (1492 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Didrikson Zaharias, Babe
		Was nicknamed "Babe" after Babe Ruth because of the home runs she hit playing baseball as a child
		In addition to being one of the most decorated and all-around athletes ever, Zaharias was a courageous groundbreaker who strived to tear down social customs which barred women from living a normal everyday life.
		Zaharias challenged this view, and not only pursued a career in sports, but actively sought out those typically considered for men only.
	www.usolympicteam.com /26_18918.htm (479 words)

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