The Babe Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center celebrates the life & achievements of the "World's Greatest Female Athlete," Babe Zaharias.
The Babe Zaharias Museum and Visitor Center is dedicated to the achievements and memory of Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias. Named "Woman Athlete of the Century" by the Associated Press & Sports Illustrated, Babe holds championships in golf, track & field and basketball as well as 3 Olympic medals. In addition to helping found the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), Babe won the All-American Open, the World Championship and the United States Women’s Open all in the same year – 1948. She died on September 27, 1956, at the age of 45, after a battle with cancer and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Beaumont, Texas. Babe is a member of the Ladies Golf Hall of Fame, Helms Athletic Foundations Golf Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame.
