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  1.                                  Any sport that Babe 
  2.                                  Didrikson Zaharias tried, 
  3.                                  it seemed, she played 
  4.                                  better than anyone else.
  5.  
  6. Babe, whose real first name was Mildred, 
  7. began playing basketball in elementary 
  8. school, and scored 104 points in a high 
  9. school game. After high school, she worked 
  10. for a company in Texas. She played for her 
  11. companyΓÇÖs basketball team. When her 
  12. company also started a track team, she
  13. tried that, too. 
  14.  
  15. At the 1932 Amateur Athletic UnionΓÇÖs 
  16. womenΓÇÖs track-and-field championships,
  17. the 18-year-old Babe competed in eight of
  18. the 10 events. She won six of the eight 
  19. events, set four world records (in the 
  20.  
  21.