"Babe Didrikson Takes Off Her Mask"
Magazine article
By: Pete Martin
Date: September 20, 1947
Source: Martin, Pete. "Babe Didrikson Takes Off Her Mask." Saturday Evening Post 220, September 20, 1947, 27.
Introduction
Prior to the 1930s, little attention was paid to women's athletics in the United States. Olympic competition was open to women, but female athletes in most sports either labored in obscurity, or were criticized for their lack of femininity. Babe Didrikson's emergence onto the national sports stage in the 1930s was the result of both her incredible natural athletic skills and her talent for self-promotion.
Mildred Didrikson was born in 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas. Nicknamed "Babe" after Babe Ruth because of her childhood athletic prowess, she possessed an unlimited ambition to compete in sports. As Didrikson said in her autobiography, "Before I was in my teens, I knew exactly what I...
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