A Sports Hall of Fame for Women! What Next?

In May, the Sports Museum of America will open in New York City.  It will include the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center, which will be the nation's first permanent women's sports hall of fame and exhibit.  About time, I say!

Billie Jean made her mark in history in 1973 when she defeated Bobby Riggs in one of the most famous tennis matches in history.  Riggs was the former No. 1 men's player.  King  went on  to do  tons of other great things for women's sports, including founding the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation and getting women tennis players equal pay with male players.  Listen up, Joe Robach (State Senator Robach (R-Greece) is helping to block the Fair Pay Act in Albany.) 

King has done a lot for women's sports, but there is much more to be done, she says.  For instance,  she points out that  sports' pages in newspapers only devote 8% of their coverage to women's sports.  Too, women only have about $1 billion in sponsorship worldwide.  Men have more than $25 billion.

King is a busy woman, but she is taking time to campaign for Hillary.  Why?  Because she thinks it will make a big difference to girls to see a woman in the White House.  As King puts it, "You have to see it to be it.  If a girl sees a woman [succeed at something new], all of a sudden, the sky truly is the limit..."