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Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life Of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (2011)

by Don Van Natta Jr.(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0316056995 (ISBN13: 9780316056991)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: I really found this biography to be interesting. Babe was very brash and cocky, but she could certainly back it up!! The human interest aspect is always my favorite part of sports and this book was chock full of human interest. After being so strong and competitive, it was very sad to read about Babe finally losing her battle with cancer at 45. Any author would've been proud to develop a character in a book like Babe which makes it that much more amazing that she was a real person.
review 2: Nicely balanced. A lot of the news about Young Babe is about her behavior as well as her winnings. It's tricky to remember this discussion is about women in 1930s America, but also that Babe genuinely pissed some people off in a more timeless fashion. She entered a spor... moret quickly, aggressively, and won whatever there was to be won. And she let everybody know. My college teammates had a term for this. We called it 'smart-ass for self-preservation'. I'm glad Natta covers this point. less

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