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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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George Braithwaite
Courtesy of Tim Boggan “The Chief”—that’s a perfect appellative for Hall of Famer George Braithwaite’s four-decade sense of responsibility to self and to Table Tennis. It’s little known, though, that George first feathered his cap in another country and in a different kind of competition. Before coming to the U.S., he represented Guyana in the…
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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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Joseph R. “Tim” Boggan
Tim Boggan’s 1996 interview in Table Tennis World My earliest recollection of playing not table tennis but Ping-Pong was with my father in the basement of our house in Dayton, Ohio, in the sandpaper and hard rubber bat days of the late 1930’s and early ‘40’s. I loved the lights over the table and the…
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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…
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Class of 2024
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** **US Table Tennis Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2024 Inductees** Portland, Oregon – March 3, 2024 – The US Table Tennis Hall of Fame proudly unveils the esteemed inductees for the Class of 2024. The induction ceremony on Oct. 10, 2024, will coincide with the 18th Si and Patty Wasserman Jr.…
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Contributions In Memory of Harold R. “Dick” Hicks
Here is a listing of those that contributed to the US Table Tennis Hall of Fame in Dick Hicks’ name. Thank you to Norma and Ricky for suggesting the continued support of the US Table Tennis Hall of Fame in Dick’s name. We will never be able to replace his presence on and off the…
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Harold R. “Dick Hicks” (1937-2023)
“CONSISTENCY” – If you look it up in the dictionary you are likely to see an image of Richard “Dick” Hicks. Whether it is his record of over 30 Indiana State Singles Championships, Over 80 National age event titles, running over 100 sanctioned events, serving on the USATT Ethics and Disciplinary Committee as the chair…
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Patty Martinez-Wasserman
Patty Martinez began winning tournaments when she was a little girl in San Diego wearing long, ankle-length dresses and patty-caking the ball back with gum-chewing, not to say exasperatingly casual, regularity. Continuing to play with an anachronistic hard-rubber bat, she grew up to win three U.S. Open Women’s Singles Championships, not only because of that…
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Mal Anderson
Mal Anderson wasn’t exposed to any real table tennis until he started attending the University of Wisconsin in 1956. There he was greatly impressed by the University Champion–Steve Isaacson–who 10 years later would found our USATT Hall of Fame. After graduating, Mal lived in Milwaukee for 18 months and, as he said, “observed with astonishment”…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States
Category: Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award
Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award.