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LA Times Today: Billie Jean King’s ‘Battle of the Sexes’ inspiring 50 years later

LA Times Today: Billie Jean King’s ‘Battle of the Sexes’ inspiring 50 years later

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It was a tennis match that transcended sports.

Fifty years ago this month, 90 million watched on television around the world as Long Beach tennis phenom Billie Jean King beat self-described “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes.

Former tennis champion and friend of King’s Rosie Casals was a commentator for the match in Houston.

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