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Quang Bui
Courtesy of Tim Boggan On Mercer Island—that’s east of Seattle across Lake Washington—“the parishioners of Emmanuel Episcopal Church decided they were going to sponsor a Vietnamese family.” So they picked the Buis. Why them? Because Lam Bui and his wife had nine children—six daughters (ages 8-21) and three sons (ages 12-22)—and, as the family had…
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George Braithwaite
Courtesy of Tim Boggan “The Chief”—that’s a perfect appellative for Hall of Famer George Braithwaite’s four-decade sense of responsibility to self and to Table Tennis. It’s little known, though, that George first feathered his cap in another country and in a different kind of competition. Before coming to the U.S., he represented Guyana in the…
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Scott Boggan
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Scott Boggan’s involvement in table tennis began–as my wife Sally, Scott’s mother, said in her acceptance speech for him at his induction–when we bought our home in Merrick, Long Island in 1964. For, said Sally, “we found there was a makeshift table in the basement—a board sitting on two sawhorses. Tim’s…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States