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Mildred Ella Didrikson (Babe Zaharias) was born in the coastal oil city of Port Arthur in southeastern Texas on June 26, 1911.She died at age 45 in 1956. Babe was a successful athlete in golf, track and field and basketball. She was a seamstress making her own clothes including her golf outfits. And she was a singer with a recording of “I Felt a Little Teardrop” with “Detour” on the “B” side for Mercury Record company. Babe Didrikson met George Zaharias, a professional wrestler, while playing

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A remebrance of Babe Zaharias on her birthday week.