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# 1911 Jun 26, 1911 – Mildred “Babe” Didrikson was born June 26, 1911 and she was very athletic and a tomboy. As a teenager she said, “My goal was to be the greatest athlete who ever lived.” She excelled in basketball, track, golf, baseball, tennis, swimming, diving, boxing, volleyball …Mildred “Babe” Didrikson was born June 26, 1911 and she was very athletic and a tomboy. As a teenager she said, “My goal was to be the greatest athlete who ever lived.” She excelled in basketball, track, golf, baseball, tennis, swimming, diving, boxing, volleyball, handball, bowling, billiards, skating and cycling. When she was asked if there was anything she didn’t do or play she answered, “Yeah, dolls.” Babe Didrikson competed in athletics during a time when female athletes were … Show more Show less From Mildred – Related web pages library.thinkquest.org/CR0215451/Thinkquest … # 1932 Dec 7, 1932 – Foster Jacoby, Texas AAU official, was blamed today by [Babe] Didrikson, star in the women’s event
Didrikson was a woman ahead of her time The first to prove a girl could be a stud athlete, Babe Didrikson began as a muscular phenom who mastered many sports and ended as a brilliant golfer. An exuberant tomboy whose life was athletics, she was accomplished in just about every sport – basketball, track, golf, baseball, tennis, swimming, diving, boxing, volleyball, handball, bowling, billiards, skating and cycling. When asked if there was anything she didn’t play, she said, “Yeah, dolls.” As a teenager she knew her life’s ambition. “My goal was to be the greatest athlete who ever lived,” she said. While others dispute her story, Didrikson said that she was nicknamed Babe early in her teens by boys awed at her long-distance homers. As she grew older, there seemed to be more Ty Cobb than Ruth in her, a dark rage that made losing intolerable. Like for Cobb, animosity seemed to be the fuel that stoked Babe’s competitive fire. The Associated Press voted her the Greatest Female Athlete of the
