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Rockliff, Mara.
BILLIE JEAN! : HOW TENNIS STAR BILLIE JEAN KING CHANGED WOMEN'S SPORTS
New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]
IL K-3
ISBN 9780525517795
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 When Billie Jean was little she loved sports, but they were only for men. Then she started playing tennis and became very good. She slowly rose to break into the national rankings but still found that males were treated and paid better than female athletes. She created an all-women’s tennis tour and later helped form the Women’s Tennis Association. Her most celebrated moment came during the “Battle of the Sexes,” her famous match with Bobby Riggs in which she beat him, proving that men could be defeated by women in the world of sports. An inspiring story of tennis champion Billie Jean King who changed the world of tennis and other sports for women. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021)

SUBJECTS:   King, Billie Jean.
                        Tennis players -- Biography.
                        Women tennis players -- Biography.
                        Tennis players.
                        Women tennis players.
                        United States.
                        Tennis -- United States -- Biography.
                        Women athletes -- United States -- Biography.

 
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