Download or read book American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age written by Dean Robert Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age features profiles and photos of the 81 players, contributors and officials active during the “Classic Age” (1931-1966) and inducted into the USTTA Hall of Fame. The 349 pages of this Volume contain more than 350 photos, many in color. 165 of the photos were taken by renowned table tennis photographer Mal Anderson. This volume is a “must have” for lovers of the sport and collectors, especially those interested in the “Classic Age” the greatest period in the history of American table tennis.
Download or read book World Class American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age written by Dean Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I, World Class American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age is the first of a series, published by United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame, covers the players, officials and contributors of the period 1931-1966, the greatest period in the history of American Table Tennis. It contains 182 pages of profiles, 170 Photos and Articles. Many of the photos are from the private collection of renowned photographer Mal Anderson who retains the largest collection of U.S. table tennis photographs in the world taken over almost half a century, some of which were never-before published. Many photos are in full color. Most of the articles in Chapter 1 are from Ruth Aarons personal album.This book features detailed Profiles by Tim Boggan Author of the multi-volume Treatise on the "History of U.S. Table Tennis" -- the single most comprehensive work published to date on the sport. In addition to the Profiles are career highlights and complete records of two of our earliest and greatest Legends - Ruth Aarons and Jimmy McClure. Ruth Aarons is the only American player to win world singles titles (1936/1937); Jimmy McClure is holder of 3 World doubles titles - 1936, 1937 and 1938 - and U.S. National Championships in 1934 and 1939. Proceeds from sales of all books in the Series will benefit the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame Museum.Foreword is by Mike Babuin, current Chairman of the Board for USA Table Tennis and President of the Cary Table Tennis Association and the Curator and Founder of the Cary Table Tennis Museum - one of the largest private collections of table tennis artifacts, memorabilia, and publications in the USA.Focus of subsequent Volumes will be:Volume II: Schiff/Pagliaro/GreenVolume III: Miles/ReismanVolume IV: Bukiet/Gusikoff/Klein/Thall SistersVolume V: Hall of Fame PlayersVolume VI: Hall of Fame Officials/Hall of Fame Contributors/Honorable Mentions/Presidents/Men and Women Champions, Singles & Doubles
Download or read book World Class American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age written by Dean Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume, No. 4 in our 6-Volume series of American Legends, features five of our most popular and beloved -- Bernie Bukiet, Bobby Gusikoff, Erwin Klein and Leah and Tybie Thall.Bernie Bukiet's life is an incredible story of survival. Table Tennis to Bernie was a passport to everything - to survival during World War II, to America and, finally, to becoming “a show business celebrity.”One day, during WWII, at 3 a.m., there's a knock on Bernie's door. "What's your name?...gather up your belongings, you're coming with us." He's put on a train and sent to a concentration camp in Russia.When he is finally released he has to go somewhere so he heads to Munich where he believes he may have some relatives.At a train station, by chance, he meets a man he's never seen before who says, "Hey, aren't you the table tennis player from before the War?" He takes Bernie home, gives him a room, and fixes him up with a job coaching at a club in Germany.Bernie went on to become a 3-time U.S. Men's Singles Champion, 6-time U.S. Men's Doubles champion, 3-time U.S. Mixed Doubles Champion and an 8-time Member of the U.S. Team to the World Championships -- not the "table tennis bum" some official had once called him...but a show-business celebrity.Bobby Gusikoff came from a very musical family. His mother's father, Bohumil Kryl, had played the cornet for John Philip Sousa; his mother was a very accomplished pianist; and his father was a noted violinist and symphony orchestra conductor. But there would be no performance-concerts in Bobby's future – his footsteps would have him traveling to a different kind of playing hall.Bobby's introduction to table tennis came on an evening in the late 1940s when his father brought him to the fabled Herwald Lawrence's Broadway Courts in Manhattan. “There was no way to know that in a few minutes my entire life would be changed,” he said. “When the big steel door of Lawrence's opened we walked into a smoky, slightly seedy-looking room packed with people. It was standing room only, and there before me was Dick Miles playing Marty Reisman a money match. I had never before seen anything like this. That night I had found my love."Erwin Klein, at age16, at the Canadian International in Toronto, won the Men's Singles, Men's Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Junior titles – in the Men's defeating John Somael, Bernie Bukiet, and Sol Schiff, the U.S.'s 3rd, 4th, and 5th ranked players. How can this be explained by anything other than “pure talent?”Erwin went on to win the U.S. Open Boys twice, the U.S. Open Juniors three times, Canadian Open Men's Singles four times, U.S. Open Men's Singles and Men's Doubles four times and the 1956 World's Mixed Doubles Championship (with Leah Neuberger). The Legacy of Erwin Klein may be that he was the greatest table tennis player America ever produced -- in terms of pure talent, rivaling the legendary careers of Dick Miles and Marty Reisman.Leah & Tybie Thall won nearly 170 titles between them!Leah won 71 U.S. and Canadian titles including 9 U.S. Open Women's Singles titles, 12 Women's Doubles and 9 Mixed Doubles. Her greatest triumph of course was at Tokyo in 1956 when she and teenager Erwin Klein won the World's Mixed Doubles from 14-10 down in the 5th over Ivan Andreadis and Ann Haydon, both World Singles runner-ups.Tybie's greatest triumphs came in the years 1948 and 1949. In 1949 she was a member of the winning U.S. Corbillon Cup Team and the winner of the English Open Mixed and Women's Doubles Championships.But Tybie's greatest triumph of all? Winning the World's Mixed Doubles Championship with Dick Miles in 1948. Describing Tybie's play in this match, English Coach Jack Carrington said in Table Tennis that Tybie “treated us to a display of mixed doubles play which few women could ever equal.” She “inspired her partner to fight. She chopped Vana's drives and services safely back, pushed his difficult chops, and drove with ferocity whenever possible.”
Download or read book World Class American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age Vol II written by Dean Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II, World Class American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age is the second of a series published by the United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame. The series covers the players, officials and contributors of the period 1931-1966.Volume II features detailed Profiles by Tim Boggan Author of the multi-volume treatise on the History of U.S. Table Tennis - the single most comprehensive work published to date on the sport. Volume II contains 238 pages of profiles, 254 Photos and Articles, career highlights and complete records Sol Schiff, Lou Pagliaro and Sally Green Prouty. Foreword is by Dick Evans, President, U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame.Many of the photos are from the private collection of renowned photographer Mal Anderson who retains the largest collection of U.S. table tennis photographs in the world taken over almost half a century, some of which were never-before published. Many photos are in full color.Proceeds from sales of all books in the Series will benefit the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame Museum.The complete Series will number more than 1,500 pages of retrospective analysis of the "Classic" Age of table tennis coupled with more than 1,400 high quality photographs, drawings, records charts, articles, paintings, posters, album and book pages.
Download or read book World Class American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age Volume III written by Dean Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III contains 257 pages of profiles, 283 photos (many in color), cartoons and articles, career highlights and complete records of Dick Miles & Marty Reisman. Foreword is by Dr. Scott Gordon, past president and founder of the USATT Hardbat Committee, Dick Miles is a 10- time U.S. Open Men's Singles Champion (1945, '46, '47, '48, '49, '51, '53, '54, '55, '62), 4-time U.S. Open Men's Doubles Champion (1952, '53, '58, '62), 1948 London World's Mixed Doubles Champion (with Tybie Thall) and a semi-finalist at the 1959 World Championships, in Dortmund, Germany (Lost to eventual winner Jung Kuo-tuan.) Marty Reisman is arguably the most charasmatic of all American players. In Tim Boggan's words: "Marty is class, is charisma -- he knows he is, rightfully a legendary player. Reisman is Reisman, he and his unique, lifelong game are not to be duplicated. A casually magical figure, more psychic force than man -- proud bullfighter flirting with death bravado, so engaged and thrilled the audience. The Reisman of old will come again and live in this now so unheroic world." Marty's accomplishments include: 1947 U.S. National Junior Champion, (at age 17) 1947 Canadian Men's Singles, Doubles and Junior Champion, 3-time Canadian Men's Singles Champion, Member, U.S. team to '48, '49, '51, '52, '57 World Championships, 1949 World Championships semi-finalist, 1949 English Open winner (defeating 5-time World Champion Viktor Barna in the final, 1952 World Consolation Champion, 1958 U.S. Nationals Men's Singles and Doubles Champion (with Dick Miles), 1960 U.S. Nationals Men's Singles Champion and 1997 U.S. National Hardbat Champion. Subsequent Volumes in the series will include (Volume IV) Bernie Bukiet/Bobby Gusikoff/Leah & Tybie Thall and Erwin Klein, (Volume V) photos and profiles of 43 Hall of Fame Players, (Volume VI) 11 Officials, 19 Contributors, 71 "Honorable Mention" players and 18 USTTA presidents. Photos and Championship dates of Men's and Women's Singles Champions are also included. "This collection is one of significance for the average table tennis enthusiast along with the seasoned 'pro' and especially for those who are fascinated by the history of the sport. I strongly recommend this series to everyone and hope that you will enjoy it as much as I have, and as I continue to." Dr. Michael Babuin Chairman of the Board for USA Table Tennis
Download or read book American Table Tennis During the Classic Age Vol VI written by Dean Robert Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI, the last of the 6-volume series, published by the United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame, features Players, Officials and Contributors whose level of achievement and contribution during the Classic Age (1931-1966), while highly significant, did not rise to the level of Hall of Fame induction -- but without whom any history of the period would not be complete. Sections include: Honorable Mentions (Players/Officials/Contributors) - 70 brief profiles/photos; 18 Association Presidents; U.S. Men and Women Singles, Doubles and Mixed Champions, U.S. Seniors Champions; U.S. Junior Boys and Junior Miss Champions. Proceeds from this 6-volume series will benefit United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame Museum.
Download or read book A Table for Two written by Dean Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raconteur Dean Johnson weaves a series of interconnected events that helped him achieve success in life, love, and business. Sometimes coincidental, more often serendipitous and divinely inspired, Johnson's stories include over 250 photos. The common thread is table tennis, the sport which he has pursued for over 60 years as a player, organizer and most recently as a promoter of the health benefits of the sport, especially for seniors. Peppered with historical anecdotes, A Table For Two shares the passion that Johnson has for life and table tennis, his friendship with legendary players, and his 2015 induction into the United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame.
Download or read book History of U S Table Tennis written by Tim Boggan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These comprehensive volumes cover the history of U.S. Table Tennis from its late 19th century beginnings. Volume 14 covers the years 1985-1986.
Download or read book HOW THE YEARS PASSED BY written by Dean Johnson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of interconnected events the author recounts, with stories and more than 300 photographs, how he achieved success in life, in love, in business and in the sport he loves by following and yielding intuitively to what he believes were divinely inspired events. How the sport of table tennis became a -sport for life- - The magic of -just show up- - When to take a -leap of Faith- - How a hobby of pencil sketching and pen and ink drawings blossomed into a career in graphic arts. - How a $25/week internship became a $million business. - How the most unlikeable, unlikeliest of people in life may have the greatest, positive impact - When it's better to -ask forgiveness than permission- - How understanding WIIFM is important in both personal and business relationships - The benefits of turning clients into friends and vice-versa - How bad news can turn good, but it takes time - How to resolve the challenges of parenting - How two years of crippling back pain was resolved - Secrets behind a 53-year marriage - Stories about how the author was directly and indirectly connected to disparate celebrities like Babe Ruth, Billie Jean King, Frank Brennan, Sr. and Jr., A&P heir Huntington Hart- ford, Sir Harold Evans, actors Susan Sarandon & Adoni Maropis, 1961 Miss Universe Marlene Schmidt, legendary pianist Dexter Grey, portrait artist Bill Dolwick, basketball legend Christian Laettner, world-famous -puzzlemaster- Will Shortz and to two of the most talented American table tennis players of the Classic Age, Marty Reisman and Dick Miles - The story of how a 25-year old who just wanted to -be somebody, - in the sport he loves, 60 years later was inducted into the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame - -Time lapse- photos of how the years passed by - Links to highlight videos
Download or read book Ping Pong written by M. G. Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1902 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Ritchie, M. G. Ping Pong; The New Table Game As Played In America. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Ritchie, M. G. Ping Pong; The New Table Game As Played In America, . New York, London, Street & Smith, 1902. Subject: Table tennis
Download or read book Code the Classics Volume 1 written by David Crookes and published by Raspberry Pi Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Code the Classics Volume 1 not only tells the stories of some of the seminal video games of the 1970s and 1980s, but shows you how to create your own games inspired by them, following examples programmed by Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton. In this book, you'll learn how to run and edit the games in this book by installing Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE. You'll also: Get game design tips and tricks from the masters Learn how to code your own games with Pygame Zero Explore the code listings and find out how they work You'll meet these vintage-inspired games, and learn from their code in between rounds of play: Boing!: all it took was a couple of lines and a dot, and gamers would be queuing up to play. Cavern: Enduringly popular, the platform game genre is still packed with creative possibilities. Infinite Bunner: Play around with the benefits that a top-down perspective can lend to the classic platform genre. Myriapod: Some shooters confine the gameplay to a single screen while limiting the player's movement. Restrictions can build challenge and difficulty, making for truly addictive gaming. Substitute Soccer: Top-down games of pinball-style soccer built a huge cult following and kicked off a sports genre that's still going strong.
Download or read book Coach The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All written by Justin Spizman and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every great sports coach is a life coach. This book identifies 168 outstanding coaches who have much to teach us about optimizing our performance, our character, and our lives. Coaches build winning teams and enable each athlete they mentor, guide, cajole, and nurture to achieve top performance. More than this, every great sports coach is first and last a life coach. Sportswriter Justin Spizman identifies and profiles 168 of the greatest coaches and managers of all time. They have much to teach us about optimizing our performance, our character, and our lives. Coach: The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All profiles coaches in every significant sport, from football, basketball, baseball, and hockey to gymnastics, skating, rowing, rugby, soccer, and more. From field to court, diamond, rink, and pitch, the big leagues to the Olympics, college, and high school, Coach delivers the most teachable moments and methods—for play, for competition, and for life. Rich in quotations, each profile ends with lessons for top performance on and off the field, in and beyond the arena. Justin Spizman tracks all the relevant stats—for every sport keeps score—but he seeks first and last to disclose the mind, the heart, and the force of character that drive each of the indispensable men and women behind the world’s most envied and admired athletes. His profiles range from the likes of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa (already an MLB legend), to Aimee Boorman and Cecile Canqueteau-Landi (who both coached gymnastics phenom Simone Biles), Bill Belichick (the take-no-prisoners field general of the New England Patriots), Pat Summitt (who racked up 1,098 wins as coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012), Marián Vajda (the coach behind tennis titan Novak Djokovic), and David Leadbetter (golf guru to champions Kathy Baker, Nick Faldo, and Michelle Wie).
Download or read book American Sports 4 volumes written by Murry R. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America loves sports. This book examines and details the proof of this fascination seen throughout American society—in our literature, film, and music; our clothing and food; and the iconography of the nation. This momentous four-volume work examines and details the cultural aspects of sport and how sport pervasively reflects—and affects—myriad aspects of American society from the early 1900s to the present day. Written in a straightforward, readable manner, the entries cover both historical and contemporary aspects of sport and American culture. Unlike purely historical encyclopedias on sports, the contributions within these volumes cover related subject matter such as poetry, novels, music, films, plays, television shows, art and artists, mythologies, artifacts, and people. While this encyclopedia set is ideal for general readers who need information on the diverse aspects of sport in American culture for research purposes or are merely reading for enjoyment, the detailed nature of the entries will also prove useful as an initial source for scholars of sport and American culture. Each entry provides a number of both print and online resources for further investigation of the topic.
Download or read book Winning Table Tennis written by Dan Seemiller and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a competitive tournament player or a serious recreational player, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies will help you improve your game. Dan Seemiller, 5-time U.S. singles and 11-time doubles champion, shows you all the shots and strategies for top-level play. The book features 19 drills for better shot-making, plus Seemiller's own grip and shot innovations that will give you an edge over the competition. Featuring the most effective table tennis techniques and strategies, Winning Table Tennis shows you how to choose the right equipment, serve and return serves, use proper footwork and get into position, practice more efficiently, prepare for competitions, make effective strategy decisions in singles and doubles play, and condition your body for optimal performance.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Global Sport written by John Nauright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, socio-cultural significance, political economy and international reach, and suggesting directions for future research. Expert authors from around the world provide varied perspectives on the globalization of sport, highlighting diverse and often underrepresented voices. By putting sport itself in the foreground, this book represents the perfect companion to any social scientific course in sport studies, and the perfect jumping-off point for further study or research. The Routledge Handbook of Global Sport is an essential reference for students and scholars of sport history, sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport development, sport and globalization, sports geography, international sports organizations, sports cultures, the governance of sport, sport studies, sport coaching or sport management.
Download or read book A Companion to American Sport History written by Steven A. Riess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
