Babe Zaharias

Wonder Girl

November 22, 0209 | By Heather Brand Schatz

“The Babe is here. Who’s coming in second’?” quipped Babe Didrikson (1911-1956) as she confronted her track-and-field competitors at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.

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