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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”…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States