On the 25th anniversary of Billie Jean King's victory over Bobby Riggs, Anne Taylor Fleming examines this momentous tennis match. Finally tonight, essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers an historic tennis match. Sporting a blue rhinestone tennis dress, she was carried into the Houston Astrodome on a littler.
Women belong in the kitchen.
They should be barefoot and pregnant. That was his shtick. And now he had to defend it in the so-called battle with the sexes. This was no ordinary match. There were 30,472 screaming fans in the stands.