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Striving to be champion, Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Bookshelf for Young Americans)
Striving to be champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Bookshelf for Young Americans Author:Helen Markley Miller Babe Didrikson made a promist to herself as a child. She determined to become the best woman athlete in the world. — As a lanky tomboy, she played all kinds of sports with her brothers in Beaumont Texas. At the age of sixteen she became an outstanding high school basketball star. At eighteen she won a track meet single-handed, and then went on... more » to win two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics. By the time whe was twenty she had captured 635 championships in 636 competitions, outclassed all opposition in twenty different forms of sport and was called the "world's greatest all around woman athlete."« less