Who, in the U.S., was considered the greatest woman athlete of the 1950s?
Correct answer: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
DustyMephit94864
she was from here in Texas. There's a memorial and a sport field named for her
WaldoLydeker
We need to cultivate and pass on the legacy of individuals like her to our present generation. Surely a member of the Mount Olympus of humans born in the 20th century.
Player #5119202
Awesome athlete
Player SQinfoNUTS
DustyMephit94864, perhaps she is the basis for the Katharine Hepburn Spencer Tracy movie entitled Pat and Mike.
AmazingCop2962
Did not know this
Player Gigi #28446253
When I was growing up in the 40's and 50's she was very well known and celebrated for golf and the Olympics, but she was known as Babe Didrikson only. She added her married name to all her public info after she married.
slomogeo
Player Darius, knew her from golf.other stuff didnt know.kool.
Foncilla
Katheryn Hepburn played a multiply talented athlete with a trainer played by Spencer Tracy. The film was Pat & Mike and it was released in 1952; two years after Zaharias burst onto the scene in 1950. Hepburn’s “Pat” entered golf tournaments, tennis matches, and track.
Player #107897503
FEMALE athlete. “Woman” is a noun. We don’t say “man” athlete, it’s “male.”
Mike
i din know this
Dorothy
I thought she would have a complicated name.
Mars V
I’ve never heard of any of them.
addam
it's funny how they named her athlete of the century when they had 50 years left until the century was over with other great female athletes who have been superior but unfortunately women of color didn't get to show off their skills back in the days of Jim Crow
Liz
DustyMephit94864, Thank you for more facts!!
K.C
I live in Houston Texas and I'm about 90 minutes from Beaumont also the home of Janis Joplin, Johnny and Edgar Winter's, Bobby Blue Bland and of course the famous Spindle Top, the first HUGE oil field in Texas.
MoeMoe
Amazing this came up about Babe Zaharias! I live on the golf course here in Tampa and seen the house where she once lived. Love this!
Maestra
Player SQinfoNUTS, the Babe had a cameo playing against Hepburn in the movie.
toe jam
did she marry a professional football player. l think she and her husband were the stars of their own sitcom show, together.
TJ SISTA
You go girl .... More girl power then...
cocoa
Player SQinfoNUTS, Babe played in Pat & Mike on golf course
Player Darius
Player #5119202, never heard of her
Player #4796245
Player SQinfoNUTS, that's what I thought too
Bigtimejeeneeus
Player #1157978, 57 here, and not a clue to be found...