Showman, hustler, huckster, Bobby Riggs was one of the great characters in sports. His loss to Billie Jean King in their "Battle of the Sexes" challenge in 1973 became a watershed event in women's sports and made tennis history as the most-watched match ever, with more than 30,000 inside the Houston Astrodome and another 50 million watching on television. Remembered primarily as an over-the-hill, 55-year-old player who hustled games by playing with chairs scattered around his side of the court, or while wearing an overcoat and snowshoes, or leashed to a lion cub, Bobby was once the best player in the world. Twenty-five years before Riggs vs. King, he won at Wimbledon, twice at Forest Hills (now the U.S. Open) and was a three-time U.S. professional champion.