1932 Olympic Games The Scandalous Stella Walsh & Babe Didrikson Original TYPE I Photo PSA/DNA

Babe Didriksonwas one of the greatest athletes of all time, excelling in multiple sports. She won two gold medals and one silver in track and field at the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80m hurdles, high jump). Didrikson dominated women's golf, winning 10 LPGA major championships and 41 LPGA tournaments total. She was a founding member of the LPGA Tour in 1950.Beyond her primary sports, she also played basketball, baseball, tennis, and bowling at elite levels. The Associated Press named her the greatest female athlete of the first half of the 20th century. Her versatility and dominance across multiple sports remains unmatched in athletic history.Stella Walshwas a Polish-American sprinter who dominated women's track and field from the 1930s-1950s. Born Stanislawa Walasiewicz in Poland, she moved to Cleveland as a child. Walsh won Olympic gold in the 100 meters at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and silver in the same event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.She set over 100 world records during her career and won 41 AAU national championships. Walsh was particularly dominant in sprint events, holding world records in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and long jump. She competed in over 5,000 races and lost fewer than 100.Her career was marked by controversy over her gender eligibility, which continued throughout her competitive years. Walsh was tragically killed in 1980 during a robbery in Cleveland. She remains one of the most accomplished sprinters in track and field historyOffered is Vintage gelatin silver semi-gloss 8.5" x 6.5" press photograph of Stella Walsh [Stanislawa Walasiewicz] and Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson, Los Angeles 1932 Olympic Games, with King Features Syndicate wet stamp and "A-729" print number in grease pencil, paper caption, andOCT 23 1932date stamp on the verso. Didrikson won five events at the trials but was limited to three events, winning gold in the 80-meter hurdles and javelin, and silver in the high jump. Walsh won gold in the 100-meter sprint, equaling the world record time of 11.9 seconds, and set 20 world records in track and field events representing Poland during her career, from sprints to the discus throw. After her fatal assault during a robbery in 1980, her autopsy revealed she had a chromosmal disorder known as mosaicism, and was determined to be intersex.Encapsulated authentic as a TYPE I photograph by PSA/DNA