Babe Zaharias (Golf)

Perhaps the most talented athlete of all time, Babe Didrikson Zaharias won two gold medals and one silver medal in track and field in the 1932 Olympics. Earlier that year, she won eight of ten events in the AAU’s National Women’s Track and Field Championship and won the meet as a one-woman team for Employer’s Casualty. She then decided to take up golf. Among her achievements was being one of 13 founders of the LPGA. In a very brief LPGA career— lasting 8 years — she won 31 events and 10 major titles. She became a legend beyond the sport of golf, but she died of cancer at the early age of 45.