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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
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Eric Boggan
Courtesy of Tim Boggan My son, Eric, begins playing in tournaments when he’s 6-years-old. When he’s 7, I enter him in the Men’s at the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) Fairgrounds venue the players share with the animals. During his match with nice-guy Benny Hull Eric spends some of the time fuming under the table.
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Robert “Bud” Blattner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan The Aug. 31, 128-entry Cleveland Great Lakes Open that started the USTTA’s ’34-35 season marked the first appearance in Topics of Robert “Bud” Blattner (who’d come east that summer with two of his teenage St. Louis buddies, Garrett Nash and Bill Price, players also destined for table tennis stardom). This Great
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States