Known as "Babe," after the famous baseball player, Mildred Didrikson Zaharias played basketball and golf, and she had a successful career in track and field. Not only was she the first woman to win both the British and U.S. Amateur, but in 1939, she was the only woman who qualified for the Los Angeles Open (a men's golf tournament). In addition, she won gold and silver medals in the hurdles, high jump, and javelin events in the 1932 Olympics.
