{"id":2253887,"date":"2026-01-28T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2253887"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:25:15","slug":"give-me-the-ball-review-ferociously-entertaining-portrait-of-billie-jean-king-as-athletic-superstar-and-culture-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/give-me-the-ball-review-ferociously-entertaining-portrait-of-billie-jean-king-as-athletic-superstar-and-culture-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Give Me the Ball!\u2019 Review: Ferociously Entertaining Portrait of Billie Jean King as Athletic Superstar and Culture Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39150093\/\">Give Me the Ball!<\/a>,\u201d the title of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0305017\/\">Liz Garbus<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4498873\/\">Elizabeth Wolff<\/a>\u2019s ferociously inspirational and entertaining documentary about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0973361\/\">Billie Jean King<\/a>, refers to something that the fabled tennis superstar would say repeatedly when she was growing up. King, born in Long Beach, California, in 1943, was raised in a 1950s world where girls weren\u2019t supposed to want to play sports. But King was such a natural-born athlete that she wanted to play all of them. Football, baseball \u2014 whatever the game, she\u2019d say, \u201cGive me the ball!\u201d When a friend of hers told her that she should try tennis, King had never even heard of it. She asked what the sport involved, and when the answer was running, jumping, and hitting a ball, her response was: I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n<p>None of this may sound like a big deal. But what it captures is that from the very beginning, Billie&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGive Me the Ball!,\u201d the title of Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff\u2019s ferociously inspirational and entertaining documentary about Billie Jean King, refers to something that the fabled tennis superstar would say repeatedly when she was growing up. King, born in Long Beach, California, in 1943, was raised in a 1950s world where girls weren\u2019t supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2253888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2253887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Give-Me-the-Ball-Review-Ferociously-Entertaining-Portrait-of-Billie.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253889,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253887\/revisions\/2253889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}