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

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Courtesy of Tim Boggan As early as Sept., 1931, two years before the formation of the USTTA, the NYTTA had split from the Parker Brothers-promoted American Ping-Pong Association (APPA), had then begun conducting its own tournaments, and in the fall of 1933 joined the USTTA. In the spring of 1934, prior to the imminent merging

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Courtesy of Tim Boggan Angie’s always been proud of her ethnic heritage. Her father was Filipino, her mother Sioux Indian. She comes from a family of seven siblings–sister Monica and, for a time, brother Chris were good tournament players. Angie named her first child Suco after Angie’s Filipino grandmother, Suco Li. Her father, Monico, was

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