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Autobiography

By: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, as told to Harry Paxton

Date: 1955

Source: Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, as told to Harry Paxton. This Life I've Led: My Autobiography. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1955, 47–50.

About the Author: Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson (1914–1956), born in Port Arthur, Texas, was by many accounts the greatest female athlete of the twentieth century. Borrowing her nickname from baseball hero Babe Ruth, Didrikson distinguished herself in any number of sports. She set numerous records in track and field, was a three time All-American in basketball, and won every major women's golf championship, including amateur and professional titles. She died of cancer in 1956, at the age of forty-one.

Introduction

Babe Didrikson was a precocious teenage athlete in the small town of Beaumont, Texas, when she was discovered by Colonel M.J....