Wonder Girl

The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Za

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Release Date: 06/02/2011
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: N/A
Language: English
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Health & Sports
Author: Don Van Natta
Read by: Hillary Huber
Duration: 687 minutes
Run Time: 687 minutes
Language: English
Language: English
Audio Library Digital - 9781611200713
Audio Retail Digital - 9781611200706
10 Audio CD(s) - 9781611200690
Playaway - 9781611201994

Wonder Girl

The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Za

By Don Van Natta

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Health & Sports

Audio Library Digital

06/02/2011

687 minutes

9781611200713

Audio Retail Digital

06/02/2011

687 minutes

9781611200706

Audio CD

06/02/2011

10 Audio CD

687 minutes

9781611200690

Playaway

06/02/2011

687 minutes

9781611201994

Description:

Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world. A rollicking saga, stretching across the first half of the 20th century, Wonder Girl is as fresh, heartfelt, and graceful as Babe herself.

Quotes:

[an] engaging biography...a story that every American sport fan should relish., Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. ...wonderful to hear...Performer Hillary Huber's voice is wonderfully matched to Didrikson's Texas twang and the many people she met along the way...Highly recommended..., Library Journal

...spirits the reader away on this fairy-tale story with grace, humor, and an occasional need to set the record straight...An enthusiastic, sympathetic biography of the incomparable all-around sports champion., Kirkus

Huber portrays the superstar and her siblings in a southern accent...and the parents' Norwegian dialect rings true., Booklist

Hillary Huber narrates...with panache, confidence, and only a touch of femininity - a style reminiscent of the great Babe Didrikson herself...Listeners need not be sports fans to appreciate the impressive determination of this groundbreaking American., AudioFile Magazine

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