She was born Billie Jean Moffitt on Nov. 22, 1943 in Long Beach, Calif., the daughter of a firefighter father and homemaker mother. Her younger brother Randy would become a major-league pitcher.

“You could feel it coming across the net.” The origin story goes that from the day she first picked up a racquet at age 11, Billie Jean Moffitt knew her purpose in life was to excel at tenni ...

The sky is the limit for Billie Jean King. The tennis legend — dubbed “Equality ... spent playing the sport with her father ...

Tennis legend Billie Jean King, a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers who helped launch the Professional Women’s Hockey ...

More than five decades after tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in what was known as the “Battle of the Sexes, ...

Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps.

The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

She was born Billie Jean Moffitt on Nov. 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, the daughter of a firefighter father and homemaker mother. Her younger brother Randy would become a major league pitcher.

Tennis legend Billie Jean King, a minority owner of the Los ... King, who played catch with her dad and baseball with her brother, Randy Moffitt – who pitched 12 years in the major leagues ...