Babe Conquers the World chronicles the groundbreaking life of Babe Didriksen Zaharias. Told in 10 'rounds', each chapter explores Babe's determination to overcome the obstacles that stood in her way, including the boys, the girls, the rules, the road, the tradition, and ultimately cancer. Authors Rich and Sandra Neil Wallace bring unique strengths and passion to telling Babe's story: Rich experience in writing children and YA sports CRF and Sandra groundbreaking reporting for ESPN.

Born in 1911, Mildred Ella "Babe" Didriksen, Babe was driven to athletic excellence in golf, basketball, and track. She stated, "All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else." And she did. Babe persevered to become an All-American, world record holder, Olympic medalist, and golf champion. However, Babe also battled poverty, loneliness, and prejudice with the same drive and determination she trained and competed. Despite her successes--Title IX wouldn't become law until 1972 and four decades after Babe's death for a professional women's basketball league to be created. ( )

Why isn’t Babe Didrikson a household name, the way Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are household names? She was, after all, in ESPN’s top ten athletes of the 20th century. She did, after all, excel at multiple sports, including basketball, track and field, tennis, and golf. She did, after all, singlehandedly defeat a 22-person track and field team to take the women’s national championship title - breaking four world records in the process (three of which were already her own). And she was, after all, a founding member of the women’s PGA.

Read this biography to find out why Babe Didrikson deserves to be someone you know about. ( )

An admiring, honest, revealing biography of one of the foremost female athletes of all time who set multiple world records long before Title IX. Compare this title to Russell Freedman's biography, Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion (Clarion, 1999). ( )

A sports biography, which there are plenty of, but the inclusion of women's rights and the other struggles that Babe faced (and her overcoming of those struggles, for the most part) sets this biography apart.