Everyone reaches a point in life when it’s OK to sink into the easy chair, prop up their feet and take a deep breath.

Apparently, no one has told this to Billie Jean King.

Since the time she was a child in Long Beach, Calif., raised by a firefighter and homemaker, King has been filling history books.

She won more singles and doubles championships at Wimbledon than anyone before or since, and she was the No. 1 female tennis player in the world.

She’s been carrying a flag, for decades, for gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights in sports and society. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Fifty million people tuned in on their televisions one evening in 1973 and watched her whip Bobby Riggs in a tennis challenge billed as “The Battle of the Sexes.

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