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 Ping Pong the New Table Game as Played in America Classic Reprint written by M. G. Ritchie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ping Pong the New Table Game as Played in America Then, for a period Of ten years, nothing was heard of the indoor sport. But in Au gust, 1900, a little incident resulted in the formation of a' Table Tennis club, and from this we date the real origin of Ping Pong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Yasi The Champion written by Yasiris Ortiz and published by Yasiris Ortiz Mejia. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasi the Champion is a children's book written by Yasiris Ortiz. In her first book ever, Ms. Ortiz narrates her story to share with her audience, children, and adults, how she first fell in love with the sport of Table Tennis.Yasi, a young Latina girl from the Dominican Republic, becomes interested in playing table tennis after seeing two girls playing at a mall. Her dreams of becoming a Table Tennis Champion are born. Ms. Ortiz is a professional table tennis champion. In Yasi the Champion, she hopes to inspire kids and young adults to aim high and realize their dreams.

Download or read book Ping Pong the New Table Game as Played in America written by M. G. Ritchie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ping Pong the New Table Game as Played in America Within recent years the game of "Ping Pong" or "Table Tennis," as it is variously called, has become exceedingly popular in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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 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 378 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 1 covers the years 1928-1939.

Download or read book History of U S Table Tennis written by Tim Boggan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 394 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 2 covers the years 1940-1952.

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 Ping Pong Registered Trademark U S No 36 854 written by Arnold Parker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ping-Pong (Registered Trademark U. S. No. 36, 854): The Game and How to Play It Many people must have asked themselves, why ping-pong in SO short a time has become so amazingly popular. The answer, I think, is easy, and will be found in the following facts: Firstly, all who have played must allow that it is an excellent game, excellent because it afi'ords amusement for hours together, and because there is no small amount of Skill required to play it at all well; this will account for much of its popularity. But there are other and, I think, weightier reasons. It has been called the poor man's billiards, not that it resembles that king of indoor games any further than that balls are used in the playing of both, but because it supplies its place in the houses of those whose rooms and means are too small to permit the adoption of billiards, since a very small outlay will purchase all accessories necessary for ping-pong; and if the proportions mentioned in a later chapter of this work be Observed as regards height of net, not only can an excellent game be had on a small table, but any one can learn to play it well and will find himself able to do SO on a larger table; play on a small table being excel lent practice for play on the club-size table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.