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If you know one thing about Billie Jean King, it’s probably that she defeated Bobby Riggs in a heavily hyped 1973 tennis match—the subject of the 2017 film Battle of the Sexes—that captivated the nation’s attention. But as a new Audible Original documentary out today, The Dollar Rebellion: How Billie Jean King and the Original 9 Became the Change They Wanted to See, makes clear, King’s real signature achievement—the one with reverberations still being felt every time a woman athlete gets a paycheck—actually happened three years earlier when she, along with eight other fearless woman players, went out on a limb and formed their own professional tour, which soon became the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). The audio documentary speaks for itself—literally—as King recounts her sports-mad childhood, her earliest experiences with tennis, the take-no-prisoners decision of her and the rest of what’s now known as the Original Nine, and their powerful and important legacy, both on and off...
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