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Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
By Ware, Susan
- ISBN
- 978-0-80783-454-1
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on February 15, 2011
Tennis great Billie Jean King was always in the thick of things. Ambitiously, she wanted to transform tennis from its country-club domain into a viable profession. She started coed Team Tennis and womenSports magazine, but it was 1973's televised "Battle of the Sexes," when she defeated Bobby Riggs, that sealed her reputation as a superstar. Independent scholar Ware (Title IX: A Brief History with Documents) a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
