Game, Set, Match

When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis''s "Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity. In this winning combination of biography and history, Susan Ware argues that King''s challenge to sexism, the supportive climate of second-wave feminism, and the legislative clout of Title IX sparked a women''s sports revolution i...