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Mitchell Seidenfeld
Marcy Monasterial, who with one arm had been a member of the able-bodied 1957 U.S. Team to the Stockholm World’s, points to the 1990 World Championship Games for the Disabled to introduce Minneapolis’s 26-year-old Mitch Seidenfeld to us. Who, we want to know, IS this dwarf, er “little person”? Unseeded in Men’s Class 8, he…
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Jimmy Butler
Before he was 11…13…15…17 and out of the Junior’s, Jimmy Butler had won a remarkable 24 U.S. Open and Closed Championships. Already he stood tall in the History of U.S. Table Tennis, and, as was apparent to everyone, his stature in our Sport could only continue to grow and grow and grow. From the beginning,…
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Jasna Rather
Jasna Rather (nee Fazlic, formerly Lupulesku) was born Dec. 20, 1970 in Foca, a town in Bosnia not far from the Montenegro border. Following in the footsteps of her uncle and older sister, always an important influence in her life, she began playing table tennis at age 8, maybe got a Christmas present of a…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States