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 ...

Back in a time when it was considered unfeminine to take sports too seriously, Babe Didrikson Zaharias was brazenly athletic. And the 1932 Olympic champion, who went on to a career in professional ...

When the Amateur Athletic Union suspended Mildred (“Babe”) Didrikson, the one-girl track team of Dallas, Tex., on suspicion of having sold an automobile testimonial (TIME, Dec. 19), many an ...

Babe Didrikson was talented in the game of basketball and much more. It’s been nearly a century since she passed away, but her accomplishments still astound visitors today. “Babe was born in ...