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Peggy McLean Folke
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Margaret “Peggy” McLean Folke first comes to our notice as a 13-year-old from Hollis, Long Island, N.Y. participating in the 1940 Eastern’s held in Reading, Pennsylvania. When she next catches our eye, it’s a year later, Wednesday, Feb. 12, and she’s playing in the one-day New York Open. Obviously she’s been…
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Bobby Fields
Courtesy of Tim Boggan The mid-January 1954 Los Angeles Championships, I believe, marked the first time the names, Mike Ralston, Leonard Cooperman, and Bobby Fields appeared in print together. Both Bobby and his well-known father, Stan Fields (formerly Feitelson), the long-time famous Tournament and Exhibition Player and former Club Manager of the Washington, D.C. Ice…
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Amy Feng
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Four-time U.S. Women’s Champion Amy Feng’s first coach was her father, Peishing, whom she’d accompanied to a local table tennis club and found that playing the game was fun—certainly better than studying. By 1981, 12-year-old Amy had been accepted as a professional member of the Tianjin, China Women’s Team. Later, in…
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