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Bustin' Balls

World Team Tennis 1974-1978, Pro Sports, Pop Culture and Progressive Politics

ISBN-13: 9781627310994

Author(s): Steven Blush

Subjects: S, WS

Publisher: Feral House

Publisher Imprint: Feral House

Publication Date: 22-12-2020

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£31.99
Bustin' Balls

About the book

Bustin' Balls tells the strange but true story of World Team Tennis (1974-1978) that attempted to transform the prim and proper individual sport of tennis into a rowdy blue-collar league. Billie Jean King and her partners merged feminism and civil rights with queer lifestyle, pop culture and a progressive political agenda to create a dazzling platform for the finest tennis players of the day to become overnight stars. The vision of the World Tennis League with its mixed-sex teams and looser rules that encouraged fast and aggressive play, propelled tennis into a television fixture and the players into household names.