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Sally Green Prouty
Courtesy of Tim Boggan The 1938 World Championships would be played in London, at Wembley, and, since all four members of last year’s winning U.S. Corbillon Cup Women’s Team–Ruth Aarons, Dolores Kuenz, Jay Purves, and Emily Fuller–were not interested in representing the U.S. this year, especially since they’d have to pay all, or at least
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Eddie Pinner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan USTTA Table Tennis Topics columnist Reba Kirson (later Monness) said that the “most exciting” match in the Feb., 1939 Pennsylvania Open was the final of the Boys’, won by Eddie Pinner over Roy Weissman, -18, 12, -20, 18, 19. Weissman, who, like Pinner had learned his table tennis under the tutelage
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Danny Pecora
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Ah, (photo #1) here we are with our opening inductee—the handsome, young Pecora of 1959. And doesn’t he look like a modest fellow with a serene, mild-mannered, submissive disposition.We find Danny coming of age at the 1960 Washington, D.C. National’s (Photo #2) where he and lefty Milwaukeeian Jimmy Blommer—after upsetting two
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States