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Fred Danner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan This year’s Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Fred Danner. For a quarter of a century Fred has made countless local, state, regional, national, and international contributions to our Sport, and is currently near to completing a mammoth version of his Memoirs, calledAdventures of a Ping-Pong Diplomat. Having enrolled at…
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Coleman Clark
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Who better to tell us about Parker Brothers’ 1932 American Ping-Pong Association Champion Coleman Clark than the expatriate Japanese penhold defensive star Yoshio Fushimi, APPA #8 for 1932, whose showmanship Clark so appreciated. In his 1933 book Modern Ping-Pong Clark pictures Fushimi “rushing towards the table like a mad bull to…
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Elmer F. Cinnater
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Ping-pong play “with a twenty-five cent set”: kitchen table, makeshift net, sandpaper rackets, and balls “so light they almost floated in the air.” Who would think because Elmer Cinnater (“sin-AH-ter”) enjoyed, really enjoyed, such a casual diversion he’d be a VIP visiting in the not too distant future some of Europe’s…
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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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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”…
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Shonie Aki
From the 1960-61 season on, Shonie Aki was ranked among the top 40 players in the U.S. six times, once achieving–with his unorthodox but very effective wrist-snap stroke–the U.S. #14 spot. And though as early as 1959, Shonie enjoyed, at his own expense, playing in the Dortmund, Germany World Championships, he was never content to…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States