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"Balls" Falls Too Short of Its Ambitious Goals by Jan Simpson

People don't usually make too big a deal about a 45th anniversary. After all, the much more impressive-sounding 50th is so close. But the 1973 match between Billie Jean King, a 29-year-old tennis star and pioneering feminist; and Bobby Riggs, a 55-year-old tennis has-been and misogynistic prankster, has been getting all kinds of attention lately. The movie "Battle of the Sexes," as their match was billed, came o…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:51AM on January 27, 2018

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