BILLIE JEAN KING - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1978 - HFSID 2345
Price: $200.00
BILLIE JEAN KING
Black and white publicity postcard of Billie Jean King reaching to
hit a tennis ball inscribed to a fan.
Autograph note signed: "Go for it,/Jeffrey!/Billie Jean King"
on verso. B/w, 7¼x5½. 13-cent metered postage affixed, postmarked San Mateo,
California, February 24, 1978. Typed address on verso. Depicts King in
action on front; facsimile signature at lower right. Captioned at upper margin
on verso. Billie Jean King (born Billie Jean Moffitt in 1943), who was ranked in
the top 10 of tennis for 17 years, is the holder of 20 Wimbledon titles
(including singles champ six times) and was U.S. champ four times.
Credited with establishing the first successful women's professional tennis tour
and paving the way for other female athletes, she was the first woman athlete
to earn $100,000 in one year (1971). In 1973, 29-year-old King beat
55-year-old Bobby Riggs 6-4,6-3,6-3 in the nationally televised "Battle
of the Sexes" to win $100,000 at the Astrodome, spurring new interest in
tennis. In 1965, she married Larry King, with whom she founded the unique
World Team Tennis, which has a co-ed format that King calls "the future". A
member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the National
Women's Hall of Fame, King led the U.S. team to a gold medal sweep at the 1996
Olympic Games and continues to coach. Lightly creased. Lightly soiled at
margins on signature side. Otherwise, fine condition.
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