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Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships.
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sports · American golfer and athlete (1911–1956) · basketball player · javelin thrower · autobiographer · golfer · tennis player · baseball player · swimmer · competitive diver · high jumper · also Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Mildred Didrikson, Babe Zaharias, Babe Didriksen, Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Babe Didrikson
Born 26 June 1911 · Died 27 September 1956 · Q231983
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
A historical marker about Zaharias and the course was placed on the course by the Hillsborough County Historical Advisory Council and The Forest Hills Neighborhood Association
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2021· 4 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom (2021).
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Golf Digest: Our latest podcast discusses the legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias—and the most incredible performance in golf history
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Zaharias was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald J
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Golf Channel: Annika Sorenstam, Gary Player and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
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2019· 1 entry
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Zaharias for 1932
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2014· 3 entries
Her story was portrayed in a "Sport Heroes" episode of the Comedy Central series Drunk History; Didrikson Zaharias was played by Emily Deschanel
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CBSSports.com: Babe Didrikson Zaharias' golf clubs sell for $31,250
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Zaharias was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBTQ people
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2010· 1 entry
The courses together won the National Golf Course Owners Association's California Golf Course of the Year Award
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (2008).
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Zaharias was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
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2007· 1 entry
Carolyn Gage began work on Babe, a full-chorus, full-orchestra musical about Zaharias
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2006· 1 entry
The Arthur episode "World Girls" featured Francine buying a doll of Zaharias, which included a dossier about golf, after learning her involvement in professional golf and how she introduced women to the sport
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2000· 2 entries
Was ranked as the 17th-greatest golfer, and the second-greatest woman player (after Mickey Wright) by Golf Digest magazine
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Sports Illustrated magazine also named her second on its list of the Greatest Female Athletes of All Time, behind the heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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1980· 1 entry
The Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry, California built two courses, The Ike and The Zaharias
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1978· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1976).
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Zaharias was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1975· 1 entry
Susan Clark portrayed Zaharias in a biographic TV movie titled Babe, for which Clark won an Emmy Award
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded World Golf Hall of Fame (1974).
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The City of Tampa took over a golf course she had owned, renovated it, and reopened it, naming it the Babe Zaharias Golf Course
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1973· 1 entry
Zaharias, who had lived in the Denver area for most of the 1940s and early 1950s, became one of the three inductees in the inaugural class (joining Dave Hill and Babe Lind) of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame
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1964· 1 entry
Zaharias was posthumously inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame
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1957· 1 entry
Posthumously received the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf
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1956· 2 entries
Died 1956-09-27.
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Zaharias died of her illness at the age of forty-five at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas
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1955· 1 entry
Zaharias published her autobiography This Life I've Led
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Zaharias was diagnosed with colon cancer
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1952· 1 entry
Appeared as herself in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film Pat and Mike
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1951· 2 entries
And in 1952 took another major with a Titleholders victory, but illness prevented her from playing a full schedule in 1952–53
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(now part of the World Golf Hall of Fame)
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1950· 4 entries
Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1950).
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The Associated Press voted Zaharias as the "Greatest Female Athlete of the First Half of the Century"
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When she completed the Grand Slam of the three women's majors of the day: the U
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Overwhelmingly voted for her as the "Greatest Female Athlete of the First Half of the Century"
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1948· 1 entry
Became the first woman to attempt to qualify for the U
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1947).
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Didrikson dominated the Women's Professional Golf Association and later the Ladies Professional Golf Association
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1946).
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1945).
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Participated in three more PGA Tour events, missing the cut of one of them, and making the cut of the other two; as of 2023, she remains the only woman to make the tournament cut in a regular PGA Tour event
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1932).
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1931· 1 entry
Didrikson had first achieved wider attention as a track and field athlete
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1911· 2 entries
Born 1911-06-26.
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The sixth of seven children, in the coastal city of Port Arthur, Texas
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