{"id":104832,"date":"2016-04-18T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/18\/cracked-like-king-babe-didrikson-also-played\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T14:38:31","slug":"cracked-like-king-babe-didrikson-also-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/18\/cracked-like-king-babe-didrikson-also-played\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-104832 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/18\/cracked-like-king-babe-didrikson-also-played\/attachment\/104833\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5qcczDnPU1qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5qcczDnPU1qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5qcczDnPU1qz5q5lo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cracked.tumblr.com\/post\/142950578810\" target=\"_blank\">cracked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like King, Babe Didrikson also played tennis. Unlike King, she also played every other sport ever invented. Seriously. She successfully competed in <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sportscentury\/features\/00014147.html\" target=\"_blank\">basketball, track, golf, baseball, tennis, swimming, diving, boxing, volleyball, handball, bowling, billiards, skating and cycling.<\/a> She won gold medals at the 1932 Olympics in high jump, 80-meter hurdles and javelin. We\u2019d joke that such a badass woman would never conquer domestic duties, except Didrikson was a competitive seamstress and won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2056189\/the_best_athlete_of_all_time_babe_zaharias.html?cat=49\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Seamstress Championship.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, since female athletes in the 1930s were regarded as highly as communist Irish atheists, there were almost no outlets for female sports, forcing Didrikson to take up one of the few socially acceptable sports for females \u2013 golf.<\/p>\n<p>Didrikson utterly dominated her opponents, winning 41 LPGA events and 10 majors. More importantly, she shocked people by refusing to act feminine. She went as far to try out and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comcast.net\/slideshow\/sports-womeninmenssports\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\">qualify for the PGA<\/a> in 1945, something no other woman was able to do until 2003. Her imposing and unapologetic demeanor<a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2056189\/the_best_athlete_of_all_time_babe_zaharias_pg2.html?cat=49\" target=\"_blank\">made future athletes like Billie Jean King more acceptable in mainstream sports<\/a> and greatly advanced female athletics.<\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19152_the-6-greatest-athletic-feats-ever-arent-what-you-think_p2.html?wa_user1=3&amp;wa_user2=Sports&amp;wa_user3=article&amp;wa_user4=companion\" target=\"_blank\">The 6 Greatest Athletic Feats Ever (Aren\u2019t What You Think)<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cracked: Like King, Babe Didrikson also played tennis. Unlike King, she also played every other sport ever invented. Seriously. She successfully competed in basketball, track, golf, baseball, tennis, swimming, diving, boxing, volleyball, handball, bowling, billiards, skating and cycling. She won gold medals at the 1932 Olympics in high jump, 80-meter hurdles and javelin. We\u2019d joke &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/18\/cracked-like-king-babe-didrikson-also-played\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[208,261,3210,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104834,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104832\/revisions\/104834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}