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Carl Zeisberg
Courtesy of Tim Boggan No official in the history of our Sport ever tried harder to organize the USTTA than did Carl Zeisberg, an authoritarian and consequently controversial figure. Throughout the 1930’s, his name–both as President of the Association and as Editor of Topics–is synonymous with Law and Order. We first see him, and his…
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Graham Steenhoven
Courtesy o Tim Boggan Topics first mentions Graham Steenhoven when he’s 30 years old and a representative of the Michigan TTA. At the Detroit train station, he has courteously met St. Paul, Minnesota’s Helene “Tiny” Moss, perhaps not yet a teenager, for, unaccompanied, she’s come to play in the Feb. 8-9, 1941 Western Open. Thirty…
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George Schein
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Indispensible to any attempt to recreate the early History of U.S. Table Tennis are the published books and private scrapbooks of those active in 1930’s table tennis–specifically, the popularizations of Neil Schaad, Bill Stewart, and Coleman Clark, and the lovingly kept (if not always so chronologically ordered) clippings of Marcus Schussheim…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States