Bobby Riggs - Aspen Hustle - Part Four

Once you've found the world of Aspen and its four major ski resorts in the '70s, the area of Aspen and the surrounding communities of Snowmass, Carbondale, Woody Creek and Basalt exploded with second homes for the rich and famous. By 2007 the permanent population of 3,000 in 70 years had risen to 6,000, but property values rose in the air. Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia recently listed his property in Aspen, a mansion of 56,000 square feet for $ 135,000,000! Yes, $ 135,000,000! Aspenprobably one of the highest per square meter of housing markets throughout the world. Celebrities with homes in the Aspen area include Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Michael Eisner, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, and so on. Our project, the Aspen Club, was sold several times and is now the Aspen Club and Spa, a very chic private catering to health conscious customers around the world.

In 1985, even at the ripe age of 67 and still an active supporter and Hustler staffTennis has taken a different Riggs Go to the fore, challenging the top women's double team of Pam Shriver and Martina Navratilova to yet another "battle of the sexes", playing with former champion Vitas Gerulitis. Once again triumphed in the women in the score, but who really knows who the big money. Even the legendary tennis great Don Budge, who has trained with Riggs, Jack Kramer, Pancho Gonzales and Fred Perry as the first professional circuit and traveled together in the '40s, always suspectedthat with 8-5 odds to play Billie Jean King, Bobby had somehow have to bet big to win some money. But no one will ever know.

Then, in 1988, aged 70 and long out of the tennis spotlight, Bobby Riggs was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Recognizing that the world knew little of this disease, Riggs decided the public and share his diagnosis to go with the world and said, where he would have an audience. In 1994 he founded the Bobby Riggs Museum Foundation to promote and fund prostateCancer awareness. He has spent the last years of life of men and women, his education on the disease.

Washington Post, October 27, 1995 - Bobby Riggs, 77, a former Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis champion, will make women's tennis a major spectator sport and money through the loss of a further promoted 1973 match Billie Jean King helped, died of prostate cancer at his home in Leucadia, California. He was married and divorced twice and is survived by five children. "Now, you may be ableunderstand how I came to the conclusion that Bobby Riggs was the greatest tennis player of all time. Federer, hopefully, at some point once this kind of difference! "And my Bobby Riggs' history." Do not be left without the last word, Jay Smith has informed me that one of his closest friends, one of the last people to talk to Riggs shortly before his death. He asked after the match with Billie Jean, threw it or not. Bobby smiled and said: "I won!" and wasdisappeared.

I came to watch Bobby Riggs, with even greater than great. Now I have never lost a game when he wanted. Hats off to him.