Babe Didrikson Zaharias
The Ultimate Babe
The first female sports superstar, Babe Didrikson Zaharias excelled at every sport and game she took up. An Olympic champion in track and field in 1932, she was also a standout in baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball, bowling, skating, swimming, diving, and golf. Fiercely competitive, she even pushed herself to shine at typing, dashing off a blazing eighty-six words per minute. And when critics thought she wasn’t sufficiently ladylike, she took up ballroom dancing and mastered it to perfection. (Photo: Library of Congress)