At a 1932 national track championship, the team from a Dallas insurance company was exactly one person. A 21-year-old woman entered eight events, won five outright, and single-handedly took the national team title. This is the almost unbelievable life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

From Olympic gold in track and field to founding the LPGA, she aggressively dismantled the templates of what a woman was allowed to be, building an identity around physical dominance in an era that prized female docility.

• The only athlete to win Olympic medals in running, throwing, and jumping
• Barnstorming, vaudeville, and pitching in major league spring training
• Bringing explosive full-body torque to a genteel women's golf swing
• Winning the U.S. Open a month after cancer surgery with a colostomy bag
• Becoming a public voice ...