Sports Heores and Legends: Wilma Rudolph
By Tom Streissguth.
Description
Synopsis Think you know all there is to know about Wilma Rudolph? Well, did you know that: She earned an Olympic medal for the 400-meter relay while still in high school? She once scored 49 points in a high school basketball game? Her face has appeared on a U.S. postage stamp? Early in her life, doctors told Wilma Rudolph she would never walk. She had a disease called polio, which crippled her leg. But Wilma proved the doctors wrong. Not only did she walk, she also ran-fast! By the time she was sixteen, she had an Olympic bronze medal. She went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Ol...
ISBN(s)
0760775206, 9780760775202
