Battle of the Sexes Art Print, King v Riggs 1973, Vintage Tennis Wall Art

Straight sets. Bobby Riggs was fifty-five, had won Wimbledon in 1939, and had spent the summer saying in public that the women's game was so inferior that an old man could beat its best player. He had already beaten Margaret Court.

Billie Jean King was twenty-nine, had founded the players' union that year, and had threatened to boycott the US Open until it paid women the same as men.

Thirty thousand people came to the Astrodome and around fifty million watched in the United States. She won in straight sets, and said afterwards that a defeat would have set the women's tour back fifty years.

Stories worth passing on, not just remembering.