In 1973, when I was 12, I was at my father’s house in Los Angeles when he clicked on the TV to watch Billie Jean King play Bobby ... my mom had enough, and my parents divorced.

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships ... She developed into a star softball shortstop before her parents decided that she should pursue a more "ladylike" sport and give up ...

Billie Jean King – queen of the ’60s and ’70s tennis ... taught her to care less about winning Billie Jean describes her parents as kind, hardworking, very strict but very loving.

Outside the lines is where the dialogue around Billie Jean King usually plays out. And why not? After all, the case can be made that no single athlete has accomplished more beyond the playing field.

Tennis icon Billie Jean King will be honored next week as the first female athlete with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for ...

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles ... She developed into a star softball shortstop before her parents decided that she should pursue a more "ladylike" sport, and give up ...