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Tongsheng “Jack” Huang
Courtesy of Tim Boggan I’ve gone through 25 years of USTTA magazines, and what’s so amazing to me is that, as a Coach, Jack is practically INVISIBLE to most of the Membership. Unlike, say, Richard McAfee, he doesn’t write anything about his work (or get someone to write for him), and neither do his peers…
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Chuck Hoey
Courtesy of Tim Boggan At the 1991 Chiba, Japan World’s a Mr. Yu Tanaka had hoped to spur the establishment of an ITTF Museum in the Nagano Prefecture by arranging a large Hall-of-Fame-like exhibition in the Chiba Stadium. ITTF President Ichiro Ogimura had wanted this Museum, and though there was an international call for display…
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Bill Hodge
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Bill Hodge came to the Game late—in 1958, at age 22. While working at a supply company warehouse, he began spending his lunch hour playing t.t. That led him to join the Columbus, Ohio Club and to begin playing seriously in tournaments. At the 1968 Ohio Closed, for example, he and…
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Bernard Hock
Courtesy of Tim Boggan More than a quarter of a century ago, a friend of Bernie Hock’s, Dave Russell, wrote a letter to the USTTA’s Topics to say that this “old buzzard” Hock, “a number-one-class character,” just had to be remembered in the magazine. “You can’t let a champion, a fine man, and a person…
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Sanford Gross
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Sanford “Sandy” Gross, then reportedly out of Toledo, Ohio, was known to have participated in a USTTA tournament as early as the 1939-40 season, and was said to have remembered playing the 1937 and ‘38 U.S. Open Champion, Laszlo “Laci” Bellak, 25- cents a game at Harry Piser’s 91st and Broadway…
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Bob Green
Courtesy of Tim Boggan In the late 1930’s, when organized table tennis was still in its bright-hoped childhood, Bob Green was not only one of the top half-dozen players in Indiana, and one about to quickly improve, he was also beginning his 15-year stint–initially in Indianapolis, then primarily in Columbus, Ohio–as manager of a successful…
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Teodor “Doru” Gheorghe
by Ian Marshall, Editor Born in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest on Thursday 6th November 1952, table tennis for Doru Gheorghe started at the local Bere Grivita Club. He was selected by his Physical Education teacher, who also became his coach. Rapid progress followed; from 1969 to 1982 he was a member of the…
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Sharon Frant Brooks
1973 – Began as a volunteer for regional and national wheelchair games in all sport venues of the NWAA1975 – Founding member of a multi-sport program for the disable, the Delaware Valley Wheelchair Athletic Association, sports team – the Delaware Valley Spokesman, which did include a table tennis team.I was responsible to “coach” that team.1979…
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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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