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Richard Butler
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Richard Butler, after wearing many hats, was inducted as a Contributor into the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 2014. I’ll take up individually the sport’s activities we honor him for, but I need tell you that in real life he was an equally productive fellow. For 37 years (1962-2008)…
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Houshang Bozorgzadeh
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Let it be said at the outset that Houshang Bozorgzadeh (born Nov. 28, 1935 in southern Teheran)—the celebrated 3-time Iranian National Champion and Captain/Coach/Manager of eight U.S. World Teams–is very proud of his name, and so does not want, however affectionately, to be called “Bozo” for short. He prefers simply “Houshang”—which…
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Larry Hodges
Courtesy of Tim Boggan We’ll pick up Adelphi, Maryland’s Larry Hodges when he’s 16, a miler on his high school track team, and ambitious enough to go to the local library for a book on Track & Field. In the stacks, “I happened to look to my left,” he said, and there was a book on table…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States