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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…
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Insook Bhushan
Courtesy of Tim Boggan From her beginning triumph in North America–when she won the Women’s Singles at the 1974 Toronto CNE–Insook showed the remarkable poise that anyone watching her for the next two decades would have to admire. And what a game she had–she varied the spin so beautifully, and, to complement her near impregnable…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States