Tuesday, March 20, 1934

Walked home with Nadine, Pauline, Beatrice and Virginia. Saw Bernice. Sure was cold today, especially coming home.

Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956)
Named the 10th Greatest North American Athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN, 
and the 9th Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century by the Associated Press.

On March 20, 1934, Babe Didrikson pitched one inning of exhibition baseball
for the Philadelphia Athletics in a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. She started
the first inning and allowed just one walk and no hits. Though Didrickson was not
the first woman to play baseball with major league ballplayers, she had attained
national-hero status with an unprecedented performance at the 1932 Olympics.

Friday, January 13, 1933

Ollie was over again this evening but had to go home because she had told her daughter she would.

           

*Olympic javelin and 80m sprint champion Babe Didrikson Zaharis makes her first professional basketball appearance, scoring 9 points for the Brooklyn Yankees in a 19-16 win over the Long Island Ducklings. An equally gifted golfer, she later helped found the Ladies Professional Golf Association in order to provide the then-handful of professional women golfers with a tournament circuit.

Her motto? "Loose your girdle and let'er fly!"