So, What's Your Play? How Billie Jean, Bobby, and Blindness Begat Tolerance |
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| Author:
| Muscio, Richard |
| Foreword by:
| Reid, Greg S. |
| Series title: | So, What's Your Play? Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-939078-00-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Sherpa Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Millions of people watched The Battle of the Sexes in 1973, but no one knew more about the historic tennis match than a 14 year-old boy. While the world s eyes were focused on Bobby Riggs, the self-proclaimed king of male chauvinist pigs, and Billie Jean King, the defender of feminism, Richard Muscio saw the match through the headlines of the day, headlines he had carefully clipped and saved as Bobby Riggs scrapbook maker. Only years later would Muscio realize that Bobby Riggs, the man...
More DescriptionMillions of people watched The Battle of the Sexes in 1973, but no one knew more about the historic tennis match than a 14 year-old boy. While the world s eyes were focused on Bobby Riggs, the self-proclaimed king of male chauvinist pigs, and Billie Jean King, the defender of feminism, Richard Muscio saw the match through the headlines of the day, headlines he had carefully clipped and saved as Bobby Riggs scrapbook maker. Only years later would Muscio realize that Bobby Riggs, the man who said that women should belong in the kitchen, actually made America a more tolerant society.