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Bob Fox
Courtesy of Tim Boggan For the first 30 years of his life, Bob Fox had little or no contact with table tennis. After he’d graduated from the University of Minnesota and was attending Duke Law School he played some student pong. Once he was somehow paired against a very good North Carolina player—good enough to…
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Richard “Dick” Evans
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Dick Evans was brought up in Charleston, West Virginia, and, given the up-in-the-hills- militiaman photo of him at 14, it’s no surprise that he belonged to a gang of boys and girls called the River Rat Raiders (non-violent…I think). What was surprising is that as the 1930’s turned into the ‘40’s…
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Detroiter
Courtesy of Tim Boggan From the very first Oct., 1933 issue, the Detroit Wood Products Division of the Monnier Lumber Co., maker of the “Detroiter” (“Table Tennis Tables Unsurpassed”) was a Table Tennis Topics advertiser. Although the “Detroiter” was later billed as “The Finest Name in Table Tennis Tables Since 1928,” it wasn’t until 1935…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States