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TIL after winning three 1932 Olympic track medals and having success in basketball and baseball, Babe Didrikson faced false claims that she wasn’t truly a woman. To quiet the critics, she turned to the more traditionally feminine sport of golf—and went on to win 13 consecutive LPGA tournaments.

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