The American SetThe Cartoonist in Billie Jean King's Corner
Palm Beach has always kept a close eye on its courts, which makes it worth pausing on an alliance struck far from them but familiar in spirit. Charles Schulz, the mind behind Peanuts, was a devoted and outspoken backer of Title IX and of equal standing for women in sports. That conviction ran through a genuine friendship with Billie Jean King, the two bound by a cause bigger than a comic strip or a tennis match. It reads as a quietly unexpected pairing now — the man behind a beagle and a boy forever chasing a football, standing beside one of the sport's fiercest advocates.
With reporting from Town & Country.
