- Considered by many to be the world's greatest female athlete. Nicknamed "Babe" in honor of Babe Ruth.
- Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 & 1954
- In 1949 she became one of the founding members of the Ladies' Professional Golf Association.
- Inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1983 (charter member).
- Befriended fellow Texan Betty Dodd, who lived with Zaharias and her husband for the last 6 years of Zaharias's life.
- Played by Susan Clark in Babe (1975). Clark's future real-life husband, Alex Karras, played her movie husband, George Zaharias.
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1976.
- At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Didrikson won two gold medals and a silver medal, set a world's record, and was the co-holder of two others.
- In 1933, she decided to barnstorm the rural areas of the country with a professional basketball team called Babe Didrikson's All-Americans.
- Inducted into the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1974 (inaugural class).
- [7 January 2021] Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with living golfers Annika Sörenstam and Gary Player, by President Donald Trump in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
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