Susan E. Cayleff - Babe Didrikson, The Greatest All-Sport Athlete of All Time Foreword by Susan Stamberg

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In her forward, National Public Radio's commentator Susan Stamberg writes of Didrikson, "As you read her life, you may find her to be more admirable than likeable." She's not kidding. Cayleff's portrayal is as brash as its subject.  
 
The author, whose adult biography Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1995), earned a Pulitzer nomination, shows us a gifted, driven, and often lonely woman who polarized the press and wowed the fans as easily as she alienated teammates and competitors.  
 
Cayleff also shows the strain of being a celebrity; Zaharias constantly had to create new opportunities for herself, a burden she relieved by training and through the exhilaration of competing in front of an audience.  
This is a franker depiction of Babe's life than Russell Freedman gave readers in Babe Did rikson Zaharias (1999), with Cayleff acknowledging (without sensationalizing) that Zaharias' relationship with fellow golfer Betty Dodd was a sexual one.  
 
Babe's witty, coarse, resourceful, and single-minded personality comes through on every page. 
 
Conari Press (1995), 180 blz. 
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