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People (5)
Babe Ruth
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
Jim Thorpe
The Native American athlete often called the greatest of the 20th century
Joe Louis
The heavyweight champion whose 1938 fight became a battle of nations
Muhammad Ali
The champion who refused the draft and became a global symbol of conscience
Events (2)
The Hot Dog
German butchers, Coney Island, the ballpark, and fiercely local rules
The Miracle on Ice
The 1980 Olympic hockey upset that became a Cold War triumph
Documents (1)
Title IX
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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