Mildred Ella was her real name. People called her babe, such as babe ruth because one fine baseball game, she hit five home runs, She had a bunch of nicknames. When Mildred Ella got older people started call her Ty Cobb who was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. Mildred Ella ; Babe Didrikson Zaharias, was born in 1911 and died of Colon Cancer in 1956. She was married to George Zaharias who was a professional wrestler. They got married on December 23, 1938. Mildred played 15 sports; basketball, track, golf, baseball, tennis, swimming, diving, boxing, volleyball, handball, bowling, billiards, skating ,football and cycling. Her goal was to be the greatest athlete who ever lived. The reason I picked Mildred Ella (Babe Didrikson Zaharias) is because I admire her athleticism and have a goal just like her. Babe died when she was forty-five years old. Since she had died of Colon Cancer, she knew that wasn’t going to stop her from playing golf. She was a great, young, strong athlete who finished from a great season of being a famous golfer. According to a magazine article in the book Vocabulary Workshop Sadlier, she had written an autobiography. She wrote a book according to what happened in her life. Her title was called …show more content…
She has came close, to becoming the world's greatest athlete but then she had died. She became one of the greatest athletes that have ever lived but not the best. She prayed and prayed and prayed for the lord to keep moving her on to play the sport of golf and not be dead. She knew sometime had to be the time to let her go so she didn’t have to keep suffering. Doctors have said Mildred could never play again, but she kept playing and going on with her