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sport that Billie Jean King suggested she turn professional  PRO SPORTS... [DOC] [TLE] Sally Ride Biography - life, children, parents, school, mother, young ... [PAR] She has received numerous medals and honors for her work as an astronaut, ... 
Her parents encouraged Sally and her younger sister Karen to study hard ... 
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King (1943) told Ride she had the talent to pursue a .... Sally teaches kids to go 
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advising NASA on the future direction of the space program. ... Dr. Ride did not 
have to work hard for good grades, called herself ... she met Billie Jean King, who 
urged her to quit college and become a professional tennis player. [DOC] [TLE] Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride Almost Opted For Tennis ... [PAR] Jul 23, 2012 ... In 1983, Sally Ride's trip to space took a giant leap for both women and ... Ride, a 
Los Angeles native, grew up with an interest in sports, ... to turn professional at 
age 22 by Billie Jean King (they are pictured ... Ride went back to Southern 
California, where she began training for a professional tennis career. [DOC] [TLE] Sally Ride: Ready for Liftoff - Newsweek [PAR] Jun 13, 1983 ... Read Newsweek's 1983 cover story about the trailblazing astronaut. ... Not 
everyone's life resolves itself so neatly into yesor-no decisions, taken in an .... No 
one knows how good she might have become; Billie Jean King ... Bear thinks 
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a ... school," but Ride would find a key to her future at Westlake. ... that upon 
being selected as an astronaut, the person with whom she most ... attracted the 
notice of Billie Jean King, who encouraged her to give up her studies and 
become a. [DOC] [TLE] Sally Ride - Telegraph [PAR] Jul 24, 2012 ... Sally Ride, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 61, became the ... In 1962 
the astronaut John Glenn testified at a congressional ... Billie Jean King told her 
she was good enough to become a professional. ... In 1978 she answered a 
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the first woman to go to the bathroom on a space .... I do love her dedication to 
the sport but I reject her feminist stupidity of .... That was because they were so 
good at what they did, nobody ..... I used Wikipedia as you suggested. [DOC] [TLE] The Fight for Fair Play  Stanford Magazine  Medium [PAR] Sep

Question: Future astronaut Sally Ride was so good at this sport that Billie Jean King suggested she turn professional
Answer: tennis