I read Don Van Natta's Jr.'s story "The Match Maker: Bobby Riggs, The Mafia and The Battle of the Sexes" last night and I have to say it didn't ring true to me. (Billie Jean King would bet her life Riggs didn't throw the match for money.) My brother made a good point that it would be worth watching how he crushed Margaret Court shortly before the match to try to gauge whether or not his lopsided loss against Billie Jean was plausible or not. (He couldn't have gotten that much worse amd p;der so quickly.) I always figured Court got nervous and choked, whereas King trained hard and rose to the occasion. But either way, the story is worth a look even if it sounds a little too made-for-Hollywood to be true.
