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Sportswriters compared her to Babe Didrikson Zaharias, an all-American basketball player and track and field star who won gold medals at the 1932 Olympics, played pro golf and pitched at Major League Baseball exhibition games.

The 13 years since her first AP athlete of the year honors ties Parker with Babe Didrikson Zaharias for the longest time between winning in the 80-year history of the award.

The great female star Babe Didrikson Zaharias played golf, but to me golf looked too slow.

On the trip to Los Angeles, where the Games took place that year, they faced harassment from their own team members including Mildred “Babe” Didrikson.

Last week, Trump gave it posthumously to the golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias, as well as two other golfers, Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, who played golf with the president in 2019.