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Jim McQueen
Courtesy of Tim Boggan I didn’t know Jim McQueen in the mid-1960’s when he had his club in the Pullen Park Armory at North Carolina State, but later I did come down from New York to play at the Lions Park Rec Center, his home base in Raleigh. By this time he’d been liberated from…
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Quang Bui
Courtesy of Tim Boggan On Mercer Island—that’s east of Seattle across Lake Washington—“the parishioners of Emmanuel Episcopal Church decided they were going to sponsor a Vietnamese family.” So they picked the Buis. Why them? Because Lam Bui and his wife had nine children—six daughters (ages 8-21) and three sons (ages 12-22)—and, as the family had…
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Jimmy Butler
Before he was 11…13…15…17 and out of the Junior’s, Jimmy Butler had won a remarkable 24 U.S. Open and Closed Championships. Already he stood tall in the History of U.S. Table Tennis, and, as was apparent to everyone, his stature in our Sport could only continue to grow and grow and grow. From the beginning,…
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Jasna Rather
Jasna Rather (nee Fazlic, formerly Lupulesku) was born Dec. 20, 1970 in Foca, a town in Bosnia not far from the Montenegro border. Following in the footsteps of her uncle and older sister, always an important influence in her life, she began playing table tennis at age 8, maybe got a Christmas present of a…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States