Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Journal of American Culture | April 1, 1996| | Copyright

Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Susan E. Cayleff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. $29.95 cloth.

Babe Didrikson exploded on the national scene and became sensational front page copy when she entered eight of the ten events scheduled for the 1932 AAU National Track and Field Championships and won six events with a tie in the high jump, breaking four world records in the space of three hours of competition. She scored thirty points, eight more than the second place team. Boasting before and during the meet that she would "lick [them] single-handed" and "win ...

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