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American golfer and athlete

Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Zaharias c. 1938
Personal information
Full name	Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias
Nickname	Babe
Born	(1911-06-26)June 26, 1911 Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.
Died	September 27, 1956(1956-09-27) (aged 45) Galveston, Texas, U.S.[1]
Meridian	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[i]
Weight	126 lb (57 kg)[1]
Sporting nationality	The states
Spouse	George Zaharias
Career
Turned professional person	1947
Retired	1956 (her death)
Former tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 1950, its founding)
Professional person wins	48
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	41
Other	seven
Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 10)
Western Open up	Won: 1940, 1944, 1945, 1950
Titleholders C'ship	Won: 1947, 1950, 1952
U.S. Women'south Open	Won: 1948, 1950, 1954
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame 1974 (member page) LPGA Tour Money Winner 1950, 1951 LPGA Vare Bays 1954 Associated Printing Female person Athlete of the Year 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1954 Bob Jones Honour 1957 Presidential Medal of Freedom 2021

Baby Didrikson Zaharias

Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(due south)	Sprint, 80 1000 hurdles, high spring, long bound, javelin throw, discus throw, shot put
Social club	Employers' Casualty Co. Club
Achievements and titles
Personal best(southward)	80 mH – 11.7 (1932) 100 m – 12.3 (1931) 200 m – 25.half dozen (1931) HJ – 1.65 thou (1932) LJ – 5.70 g (1930) JT – 43.69 grand (1932) DT – 42.06 m (1932) SP – 12.04 k (1932)[one] [2]
Medal record Representing the United States Olympic Games 1932 Los Angeles 80 grand hurdles 1932 Los Angeles Javelin throw 1932 Los Angeles High jump

Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (; née Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball and track and field. She won 2 gilded medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics, before turning to professional person golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships. She is widely regarded every bit one of the greatest female person athletes of all fourth dimension.

Biography [edit]

Mildred Ella Didrikson was born on June 26, 1911,^[three] the sixth of 7 children, in the littoral city of Port Arthur, Texas. Her mother, Hannah, and her father, Ole Didriksen, were immigrants from Norway. Although her 3 eldest siblings were born in Norway, Babe and her three other siblings were born in Port Arthur. She later changed the spelling of her surname from Didriksen to Didrikson.^[iv] She moved with her family to 850 Doucette in Beaumont, Texas, at age 4. She claimed to have acquired the nickname "Babe" (after Babe Ruth) upon hitting five dwelling house runs in a childhood baseball game, merely her Norwegian mother had chosen her "Bebe" from the time she was a toddler.^[5]

Though best known for her able-bodied gifts, Didrikson had many talents. She also competed in sewing. An first-class seamstress, she made many of her dress, including her golfing outfits. She claimed to have won the sewing championship at the 1931 State Off-white of Texas in Dallas; she did win the South Texas Country Off-white in Beaumont, embellishing the story many years later in 1953. She attended Beaumont Loftier School. Never a strong student, she was forced to repeat the eighth grade and was a twelvemonth older than her classmates. She eventually dropped out without graduating after she moved to Dallas to play basketball.^[five] She was a vocalizer and a harmonica player and recorded several songs on the Mercury Records label. Her biggest seller was "I Felt a Piffling Teardrop" with "Detour" on the flip side.^[vi]

Already famous equally Infant Didrikson, she married George Zaharias (1908–1984), a professional wrestler, in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 23, 1938. Thereafter, she was largely known equally Baby Didrikson Zaharias or Babe Zaharias. The ii met while playing golf. George Zaharias, a Greek American, was a native of Pueblo, Colorado. Called the "Crying Greek from Cripple Creek", Zaharias also did some part-time interim, appearing in the 1952 movie Pat and Mike. The Zahariases had no children. They were rebuffed by authorities when they sought to prefer.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Able-bodied achievements [edit]

Didrikson gained world fame in track and field and All-American status in basketball game. She played organized baseball and softball and was an expert diver, roller-skater, and bowler.

AAU champion [edit]

Didrikson'southward first job afterward high school was every bit a secretary for the Employers' Prey Insurance Visitor of Dallas, though she was employed just in order to play basketball game as an amateur on the company'south "industrial squad", the Golden Cyclones.^[vii] As a side note, the contest was so governed by the Apprentice Athletic Matrimony (AAU). Despite leading the team to an AAU Basketball Championship in 1931,^[8] Didrikson had first accomplished wider attention as a track and field athlete.

Representing her company in the 1932 AAU Championships, she competed in eight out of ten events, winning 5 outright, and tying for first in a sixth. Didrikson's performances were enough to win the team championship, despite her being the sole fellow member of her team.^[4]

1932 Olympics [edit]

Didrikson set 4 earth records, winning two gilded medals and i silverish medal for rails and field in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.^{[9] [10]} In the fourscore-meter hurdles, she equaled the world record of 11.8 seconds in her opening rut. In the final, she broke her record with an 11.seven clocking, taking gold. In the javelin, she also won gold with an Olympic tape throw of 43.69 meters. In the high jump, she took silvery with a earth record-tying bound of 1.657 metres (5.44 ft). Swain American Jean Shiley also jumped 1.657 metres, and the pair tied in a spring-off when the bar was raised to 1.67 metres (5.5 ft). Shiley was awarded the gold later Didrikson was ruled to have used an improper technique.^[1]

Didrikson is the only rails and field athlete, male or female person, to win individual Olympic medals in separate running, throwing and jumping events.

Mail-Olympics [edit]

In the post-obit years, she performed on the vaudeville circuit, traveled with teams like Babe Didrikson'south All-Americans basketball game team and the bearded Firm of David (commune) team. Didrikson was as well a competitive pocket billiards (puddle) player, though not a champion. She was noted in the Jan 1933 press for playing (and desperately losing) a multi-day direct puddle match in New York City against famed female cueist Ruth McGinnis.^[11]

Golf [edit]

George and Babe Zaharias c. 1955

By 1935, Didrikson began to play golf game, a latecomer to the sport in which she became best known. Shortly thereafter, she was denied amateur status, and so, in Jan 1938, she competed in the Los Angeles Open, a PGA (Professional person Golfers' Association) tournament. No other adult female competed against men in this tournament until Annika Sörenstam, Suzy Whaley, Michelle Wie and Brittany Lincicome well-nigh half dozen decades afterward. She shot 81 and 84, and missed the cutting. In the tournament, she was teamed with George Zaharias. They were married 11 months later, and settled in Tampa, Florida, on the bounds of a golf class that they purchased in 1951.

Didrikson became America's first female golf glory and the leading player of the 1940s and early 1950s. In club to regain amateur status in the sport, she could compete in no other sports for three years. She gained back her amateur status in 1942. In 1945, she had participated in three more PGA Tour events, missing the 2d cut of the first of them, and making the cut of the other two; as of 2018, she remains the only woman to accept achieved this.^[12] Zaharias won the 1946 U.S. Women's Amateur and the 1947 British Ladies Amateur – the first American to do so – and iii Women's Western Opens. Having formally turned professional in 1947, Didrikson dominated the Women's Professional Golf Association and afterward the Ladies Professional person Golf game Association. She was a founding fellow member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, in 1950.^[13] Serious illness ended her career in the mid-1950s.

Zaharias won a tournament named afterwards her, the Infant Zaharias Open of her hometown of Beaumont, Texas. She won the 1947 Titleholders Championship and the 1948 U.S. Women's Open up for her quaternary and 5th major championships. She won 17 directly women'south apprentice victories, a feat never equaled by anyone. Past 1950, she had won every golf title available. Totaling both her amateur and professional victories, Zaharias won a total of 82 golf game tournaments.

Charles McGrath of The New York Times wrote of Zaharias, "Except perhaps for Arnold Palmer, no golfer has ever been more honey by the gallery."^[14]

Golf awards [edit]

While Zaharias missed the cut in the 1938 PGA Tour event, later, equally she became more experienced, she fabricated the cut in every PGA Bout consequence she entered. In January 1945, Zaharias played in iii PGA tournaments. She shot 76–76 to authorize for the Los Angeles Open.^[15] She then shot 76–81 to brand the two-day cut in the tournament itself, but missed the 3-twenty-four hour period cut later a 79, making her the first (and currently just) adult female in history to make the cut in a regular PGA Bout issue. She continued her cut streak at the Phoenix Open, where she shot 77-72-75-eighty, finishing in 33rd identify.^[15] At the Tucson Open, she qualified by shooting 74-81 and then shot a 307 in the tournament and finished tied for 42nd.^[15] Unlike other female golfers competing in men's events, she got into the Los Angeles^[16] and Tucson Opens through 36-hole qualifiers, equally opposed to a sponsor's exemption.^[17]

In 1948, she became the kickoff adult female to endeavour to qualify for the U.S. Open up, but her application was rejected by the USGA. They stated that the issue was intended to be open to men simply.^[18]

Baseball game [edit]

In March 1934, Didrikson pitched a full of four innings in three Major League jump training exhibition games:

• On March xx she gave up 1 walk and no hits in one inning for the Philadelphia Athletics confronting the Brooklyn Dodgers.^{[xix] [x]}
• On March 22 she pitched the first inning for the St. Louis Cardinals confronting the Boston Red Sox. Information technology was reported that "Under tutelage of Burleigh Grimes, Dizzy Dean, and others she has learned to stand up on the rubber, wind up like a big leaguer and throw a rather off-white curve."^[twenty] The Red Sox scored three runs against Didrikson in the inning earlier she got Boston third baseman Bucky Walters to wing out to future Hall of Famer Joe Medwick in left field to terminate the inning. She was relieved at the start of the second inning by Cardinal pitcher Nib Hallahan. 400 fans were in attendance.^[21]
• On March 25 she played for the New Orleans Pelicans against the Cleveland Indians, pitching two scoreless innings and lining out in her but plate appearance.^[nineteen]

Didrikson besides spent fourth dimension with the House of David barnstorming team^[22] and is still recognized equally the world record holder for the farthest baseball throw past a woman.^[23]

Final years and death [edit]

Zaharias had her greatest twelvemonth in 1950 when she completed the K Slam of the three women's majors of the twenty-four hours: the U.S. Open, the Titleholders Championship, and the Women's Western Open, a feat that made her the leader on the money list that year. Too that year, she reached x wins faster than any other LPGA golfer, doing so in ane yr and twenty days, a record that all the same stands. She was the leading coin-winner once more in 1951, and in 1952 took another major with a Titleholders victory, but illness prevented her from playing a full schedule in 1952–53. This did non finish her from becoming the fastest player to reach 20 wins (two years and 4 months).

She was a close friend of fellow golfer Betty Dodd. Co-ordinate to Susan Cayleff's biography Babe, Dodd was quoted as proverb, "I had such admiration for this fabulous person [Zaharias]. I loved her. I would accept done anything for her."^[24] They met in a 1950 apprentice golf tournament in Miami and became close nigh immediately. Cayleff wrote, "As Didrikson'due south marriage grew increasingly troubled, she spent more fourth dimension with Dodd. The women toured together on the golf circuit, and eventually Dodd moved in with Zaharias and Didrikson for the terminal six years of Didrikson'due south life."^[25] They never used the word "lesbian" to describe their relationship, but in that location is little dubiousness that their human relationship was both sexual and romantic^{[three] [24]} and Zaharias has been described as the first lesbian gilded medallist in Olympic athletics.^[26]

In 1953 Zaharias was diagnosed with colon cancer. After undergoing surgery, she made a comeback in 1954. She took the Vare Trophy for everyman scoring average, her only win of that trophy, and her 10th and final major with a U.S. Women's Open championship, one month afterwards the surgery and while wearing a colostomy bag. With this win, she became the second-oldest woman to win a major LPGA championship tournament (behind Fay Crocker). Babe Zaharias now stands 3rd to Crocker and Sherri Steinhauer. These wins fabricated her the fastest player to attain 30 wins (v years and 22 days).^[17] In addition to continuing tournament play, Zaharias also served equally the president of the LPGA from August 1952 to July 1955.^[27]

Her colon cancer recurred in 1955. Despite her limited schedule of eight golfing events that season, Zaharias won her final two tournaments in competitive golf. On September 27, 1956, Zaharias died of her affliction at the age of forty-five at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. At the time of her death, she was still a tiptop-ranked female golfer. She and her husband had earlier established the Baby Zaharias Fund to support cancer clinics.^[28] She is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in her hometown of Beaumont, Texas.^[29]

During her final years, Didrikson became known not just for her athletic abilities but every bit a public abet for cancer awareness, at a time when many Americans refused to seek diagnosis or handling for suspected cancer.^[xxx] She used her fame to raise funds for her cancer fund but also as a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. Her work in this area was honored past Us President Dwight Eisenhower on a visit to the White House.^[25]

Legacy [edit]

She was named the tenth Greatest Northward American Athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN,^[31] and the 9th Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century by the Associated Press.^{[ citation needed ]}

Zaharias broke the accepted models of femininity in her fourth dimension, including the accepted models of female athleticism. Continuing 5 ft 7 in (1.70 thousand) tall and weighing 115 lb (52 kg),^[32] Zaharias was physically strong and socially straightforward about her forcefulness. Although a sports hero to many, she was likewise derided for her "manliness".^[4]

Zaharias was inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1951 (now office of the Earth Golf Hall of Fame). In 1957, she posthumously received the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given past the United states Golf Clan in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf game. It was accepted by her married man George, four months after her death.^[33] She was i of six initial inductees into the LPGA Hall of Fame at its inception in 1977.

Zaharias has a museum dedicated to her in Beaumont, Texas the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum. Several golf courses are named after her. A Tampa, Florida golf course that she and her married man owned, the Babe Zaharias Golf Class, was given landmark status.^[34]

In 1973, Zaharias, who had lived in the Denver surface area for most of the 1940s and early 1950s, became ane of the three inductees in the countdown class (joining Dave Colina and Babe Lind Archived November 13, 2020, at the Wayback Machine) of the Colorado Golf game Hall of Fame Archived September 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine.^[35]

In 1976, Zaharias was inducted into the National Women'southward Hall of Fame.^[36]

In 1981, the U.S. Mail issued an eighteen cent stamp commemorating Zaharias.^{[37] [38]} In 2008, Zaharias was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.^[39]

On January 7, 2021, Zaharias was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom past President Donald J. Trump.^[40]

Contemporary impressions [edit]

Information technology would be much better if she and her ilk stayed at home, got themselves prettied up and waited for the telephone to ring.

Williams' remark typified the attitude of some toward women who did not fit the traditional ideals of femininity current in the first one-half of the 20th century. However, in the aforementioned time menstruum, the Associated Printing chose her as the "Female Athlete of the Year" six times for track & field and for golfing, and, in 1950, overwhelmingly voted for her equally the "Greatest Female person Athlete of the First Half of the Century".^[4] Aside from her touch on on the women and girls of her time, she impressed seasoned sportswriters also:

She is beyond all belief until y'all run into her perform...Then you finally understand that you are looking at the nigh flawless section of musculus harmony, of complete mental and physical coordination, the world of sport has ever seen.

Modernistic-twenty-four hours [edit]

The Associated Printing followed up its 1950 declaration l years later by voting Zaharias the Woman Athlete of the 20th Century in 1999. In 2000, Sports Illustrated magazine too named her second on its list of the Greatest Female Athletes of All Time, behind the heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She is as well in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Zaharias is the highest-ranked woman, at No. 10, on ESPN'southward list of the fifty top athletes of the 20th century. In 2000, she was ranked as the 17th-greatest golfer, and the second-greatest woman actor (later Mickey Wright) by Golf Digest mag.^[41]

She broke the mold of what a lady golfer was supposed to be. The ideal in the 20s and 30s was Joyce Wethered, a willowy Englishwoman with a picture-book swing that produced elegant shots but not especially long ones. Zaharias developed a grooved athletic swing reminiscent of Lee Trevino's, and she was so strong off the tee that a beau Texan, the groovy golfer Byron Nelson, one time said that he knew of merely eight men who could outdrive her. "It's not plenty simply to swing at the ball," Babe said. "You've got to loosen your girdle and actually let the brawl have it."

—journalist Charles McGrath, New York Times ^[14]

Zaharias wrote an autobiography This Life I've Led. It is no longer in print but is bachelor in many libraries.^[32]

In 1975, the film Babe, based on Zaharias' life, was released, with Susan Clark playing the atomic number 82 part (for which Clark would win an Emmy Award). Alex Karras played George Zaharias. Clark and Karras met while making the picture and later married.^[32]

In 2014, Zaharias was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people.^{[42] [43]}

She was inducted into the Texas Rails and Field Coaches Hall of Fame, Class of 2016.^[44] She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January seven, 2021

Babe Zaharias Golf Course [edit]

In 1949, Zaharias purchased a golf game form in the Woods Hills area of Tampa and lived nearby. After her decease, the golf grade was sold. It lay dormant as developers attempted to acquire the land for residential housing.

In 1974, the City of Tampa took over the golf course, renovated it, and reopened it, naming it the Babe Zaharias Golf Course. At some point afterward, it was accorded historical-landmark condition.^[34]

California course [edit]

In 1980, the Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Manufacture, California built 2 courses, The Ike and The Zaharias.^[45] The courses were designed by William F. Bell (original blueprint) and Casey O'Callaghan (renovation). In 2010, the courses together won the National Golf Course Owners Association'due south California Golf Course of the Year Award.^[46]

This eighteen-hole course is named for Infant Didrikson Zaharias, one of America 's most decorated all-around athletes... This par 71 features gradient ratings ranging from 126 to 138, making the course worthy of the great athlete for which it is named.

—Industry Hills Golf game Club at Pacific Palms Resort Website^[45]

In the media [edit]

• Zaharias appeared as a guest on the ABC reality show, The Comeback Story (1953–1954), explaining her attempts to battle colon cancer, which thereafter nonetheless claimed her life.^[47]
• In 1952, she appeared as herself in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn motion picture Pat and Mike.
• In 1975, Susan Clark portrayed Zaharias in a biographic TV picture show titled Infant .
• In Jenifer Levin's 1993 novel The Sea of Light, main grapheme Mildred "Infant" Delgado is named subsequently Zaharias past her mother Barbara, who considered Zaharias to be "my only hero".
• In 2007, Carolyn Gage began work on Baby, a full-chorus, full-orchestra musical about Zaharias.^[48]
• In June 2011, Little, Brown published a major biography of Zaharias, Wonder Girl, past author Don Van Natta Jr.^{[seven] [49]}
• Family Guy has made numerous references to Baby Zaharias being one of the greatest Americans to have lived.
• In flavour 21 of The Simpsons, Marge dresses up every bit Zaharias for her Clemency Chicks agenda with a history theme. Marge too refers to her every bit the female Tiger Wood of the 20th century.
• On August 26, 2014, her story was portrayed in a "Sport Heroes" episode of the Comedy Central series Drunk History; Didrikson Zaharias was played by Emily Deschanel.

Amateur wins [edit]

Annotation: This listing is incomplete.

• 1935 Texas Women'south Amateur
• 1946 U.S. Women's Amateur, Women'south Trans-Mississippi Apprentice
• 1947 Due north and South Women'southward Amateur, British Ladies Amateur

Professional person wins [edit]

LPGA Tour wins (41) [edit]

• 1940 (1) Women's Western Open (every bit an amateur)
• 1944 (i) Women'due south Western Open (as an amateur)
• 1945 (ane) Women's Western Open (as an amateur)
• 1947 (ii) Tampa Open, Titleholders Championship (equally an amateur)
• 1948 (3) All American Open up, World Title, U.South. Women'south Open up
• 1949 (ii) World Championship, Eastern Open
• 1950 (8) Titleholders Championship, Pebble Beach Weathervane, Cleveland Weathervane, 144 Pigsty Weathervane, Women'due south Western Open, All American Open, Earth Championship, U.South. Women's Open
• 1951 (9) Ponte Verde Embankment Women's Open, Tampa Women's Open, Lakewood Weathervane, Richmond Women's Open up, Valley Open, Tiptop Hills Weathervane, All American Open, World Championship, Women's Texas Open
• 1952 (v) Miami Weathervane, Titleholders Championship, Bakersfield Open (tied with Marlene Hagge, Betty Jameson and Betsy Rawls), Fresno Open, Women'south Texas Open
• 1953 (2) Sarasota Open, Baby Zaharias Open up
• 1954 (v) Serbin Open up, Sarasota Open, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Tournament, U.Southward. Women's Open, All American Open
• 1955 (2) Tampa Open, Peach Blossom Open

LPGA Majors are shown in assuming.

Other wins [edit]

• 1940 Women'south Texas Open
• 1945 Women'southward Texas Open
• 1946 All American Open, Women's Texas Open
• 1947 Hardscrabble Open
• 1951 Orlando Florida 2-Ball (with George Bolesta)
• 1952 Orlando Mixed (with Al Besselink)

Major championships [edit]

Wins (x) [edit]

Twelvemonth	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
1940	Women'south Western Open	5 & 4		Mrs. Russell Isle of mann
1944	Women'south Western Open	7 & v		Dorothy Germain (a)
1945	Women's Western Open	iv & 2		Dorothy Germain (a)
1947	Titleholders Championship	+4 (78–81–71–74=304)	5 strokes	Dorothy Kirby (a)
1948	U.Southward. Women'due south Open	E (75–72–75–78=300)	8 strokes	Betty Hicks
1950	Titleholders Title	+x (72–78–73–75=298)	8 strokes	Claire Doran (a)
1950	Women's Western Open	five & 3		Peggy Kirk
1950	U.S. Women'southward Open	−9 (75–76–seventy–70=291)	ix strokes	Betsy Rawls (a)
1952	Titleholders Title	+xi (74–73–73–79=299)	seven strokes	Betsy Rawls
1954	U.South. Women's Open up	+3 (72–71–73–75=291)	12 strokes	Betty Hicks

See besides [edit]

• List of golfers with nigh LPGA Tour wins
• List of golfers with most LPGA major championship wins

Female person golfers who accept competed confronting men in open PGA tournaments:

• Annika Sorenstam
• Suzy Whaley
• Michelle Wie
• Brittany Lincicome

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Bibliography [edit]

• Cayleff, Susan E. (1996). Babe: The Life and Legend of Baby Didrikson Zaharias. University of Illinois Press. ISBN978-0-252-06593-4.
• Klawans, Harold L. (1996). 'Why Michael Couldn't Hit and Other Tales of the Neurology of Sports . W.H. Freeman & Visitor. ISBN978-0-7167-3001-9.
• Van Natta Jr., Don (2011). Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias . Little, Chocolate-brown and Visitor. ISBN978-0-316-05699-1.
• Zaharias, Babe Didrikson (1955). This Life I've Led: My Autobiography . New York A.S Barns & Co. ASIN B0018EAHXW.

External links [edit]

• Mildred (Baby) Didriksen at the USATF Hall of Fame
• Babe Didrikson at the USOPC Hall of Fame
• Babe Zaharias at the LPGA Bout official site
• Babe Didrikson photos held by the Library of Congress
• Babe, a 1975 Boob tube moving picture biography, at The Cyberspace Flick Database
• Baby Didrikson Zaharias at golf.about.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 20, 2007)
• "Infant Didrikson Zaharias's Legacy Fades", The New York Times, June 25, 2011
• Baby Didrikson Zaharias – Note: Although this is the official site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation, this site in one case contained a number of notable factual errors that have since been corrected. For example, information technology stated that she won all of the events she entered at the 1932 Olympic games when in fact she won two of the three. Information technology stated that she graduated from high school; she did not. And it stated that she did not fume, which is also not truthful.
• Michals, Debra. "Mildred 'Babe' Zaharias". National Women'southward History Museum. 2015.

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