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People (5)

The slugger who remade baseball and became America's first sports superstar

Billie Jean King

The tennis champion who won the "Battle of the Sexes" and equal pay

The Native American athlete often called the greatest of the 20th century

The heavyweight champion whose 1938 fight became a battle of nations

The champion who refused the draft and became a global symbol of conscience

Events (1)

The Miracle on Ice

The 1980 Olympic hockey upset that became a Cold War triumph

Documents (1)

The 1972 law that transformed women's sports and education

Concepts (1)

Sports in America

How games became one of the nation's great stages for race, money, and identity

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