If Mildred Ella Didriksen, one the nations top female golfers of all time, were alive today where would she be in the world of sports? We look at athletes such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and even Wilt Chamberlain, and even though they are great sports figures with great sportsmanship, they competed in only one field. Babe excelled in every thing she attempted, golf, tennis, track and field, and basketball. Babe even competed against men in the PGA, some thing unheard of in her time. How that must have perplexed and aggravated the men of that time.
Some of her accomplishments include two gold medals and one silver medal in the Los Angles Olympic Games, all in track and field. Those events were the 80m Hurdles, Javelin Throw, and High Jump. Only Jim Thorpe could be considered a better athlete, but no other woman even in this day and age has accomplished this. Now when we are sending our athletes to China to compete, is a good time to look back as a nation and be proud.
What a wonderful role model she must have been for the woman of that era, and even now in today's society of superstars. To be able to see a woman excel in what at that tie was a male dominated sports world, must have been something else. In 1975, Susan Clark stared as Babe and Alex Karras as her husband pro wrestler George Zaharias, in a movie about the life of Babe Didriksen Zaharias. The movie was about how Babe got her start in sports, and how she would hurdle over her neighbor's hedges. She died much too young.
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