Research Catalog

Title

Wonder girl : the magnificent sporting life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias / Don Van Natta Jr.

Author

Van Natta, Don, 1964-

Publication

New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011.

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Details

Description

x, 403 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Describes the exceptional life and times of LPGA founder Babe Didrikson, the Texas woman who achieved All-American status in basketball, won gold medals in track and field in the 1932 Olympics, and became the first woman to play against men in a PGA tournament.

Alternative Title

Wondergirl

Subject

• Women athletes > United States > Biography
• Women golfers > United States > Biography
• Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, 1911-1956

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-389) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I LET ME -- 1.Poppa's Fables -- 2.The Only Girl -- 3.The Big Blue Sugar Bowl -- 4.The Highest Hedge -- 5.Letters to Tiny -- 6.Where She Did Not Belong -- 7.The Cyclone -- 8."Iron-Woman" -- pt. II PLAY -- 9.All Them Roses -- 10.That Big Money Talk -- 11.Miss, Mrs., Mr., or It -- 12.The Best Interest of the Game -- 13.Diamond in the Rough -- 14.The Girl, the Minister, and the Wrestler -- 15.What Momma Wants -- 16.Mrs. Z -- 17.The Highland Fling -- pt. III AGAIN -- 18.A Piece of Work -- 19.The Lady's Tour -- 20.The Unspeakable -- 21.The Muscle Is Spiritual -- 22.Rainbow Manor -- 23.Greatness and Goodness.

ISBN

• 9780316056991 (hbk.)
• 0316056995 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2010041794

OCLC

668192510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library