Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the 1932 Summ
Babe Zaharias c. 1938
Babe Zaharias Park is located in Beaumont adjacent to her museum.
George and Babe Zaharias c. 1955
Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1933
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee, née Joyner, is an American former track and field athlete who competed in both the heptathlon and long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals at
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
…in 1999. In 2000, Sports Illustrated magazine also named her second on its list of the Greatest Female Athletes of All Time, behind the heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She is also in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Zaharias is the highest-ranked woman, at No. 10, on ESPN's list of the 50 top athletes of the 20th century…
Joyner-Kersee in 2014
Joyner-Kersee at the 1988 Olympic Trials
Joyner-Kersee at a 1996 book signing