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Thursday Open Thread: Greatest Athletes You’ve Never Heard Of

May 2, 2013 by Miranda 123 Comments

Good Morning POU! Before Althea, Zina, Venus or Serena, there was Ora. Ora Mae Washington Had Ora Washington been born white - or fifty years later - she undoubtedly would have shared the pedestal that for all these years has been the province of Babe Didrickson's alone. An Olympic track star in the 1930s, a top basketballer, and a champion golfer in the 1940s and 1950s, … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Greatest Athletes You’ve Never Heard Of

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