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Closing Shot: A Lasting Battle

It’s been 50 years since Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King squared off in a tennis match watched by millions across the globe, yet its impact on the fight for equality still lingers

The “Battle of the Sexes” at the Houston Astrodome attracted 30,000 people who saw Billie Jean King dispatch Bobby Riggs. ap images In September 1973, there was no business like the male chauvinist business. In one corner was the self-proclaimed “Sugar Daddy” Bobby Riggs, who ...

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