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 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 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 How the Sport of Table Tennis Provides Physical Fitness and Can Add Years to Your Life written by Dean Johnson and published by Koehler Books. 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 World Class written by Marc Smith and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six of the world's top players talk about bridge -- their favorite hands, their worst moments, their most-feared opponents, and so on. We see the human side of people who to many bridge fans are just names, and we gather from them a series of tips and ideas that will help the reader improve his own game. The players covered are men and women from all parts of the world, and most will be household names for anyone who follows the game at all. The list runs from the old masters to the brightest new stars, and includes several whose contribution to the game is as a writer or teacher.

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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.

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Sport written by David Levinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the wide world of sports, this volume is packed with every conceivable fact that anyone would possibly want to know about nearly 300 sports, including history and practice worldwide.

Download or read book A Terrible Splendor written by Marshall Jon Fisher and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon, was a battle of titans: the world's number one tennis player against the number two; America against Germany; democracy against fascism. For five superhuman sets, the duo’s brilliant shotmaking kept the Centre Court crowd–and the world–spellbound. But the match’s significance extended well beyond the immaculate grass courts of Wimbledon. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the brink of World War II, one man played for the pride of his country while the other played for his life. Budge, the humble hard-working American who would soon become the first man to win all four Grand Slam titles in the same year, vied to keep the Davis Cup out of the hands of the Nazi regime. On the other side of the net, the immensely popular and elegant von Cramm fought Budge point for point knowing that a loss might precipitate his descent into the living hell being constructed behind barbed wire back home. Born into an aristocratic family, von Cramm was admired for his devastating good looks as well as his unparalleled sportsmanship. But he harbored a dark secret, one that put him under increasing Gestapo surveillance. And his situation was made even more perilous by his refusal to join the Nazi Party or defend Hitler. Desperately relying on his athletic achievements and the global spotlight to keep him out of the Gestapo’s clutches, his strategy was to keep traveling and keep winning. A Davis Cup victory would make him the toast of Germany. A loss might be catastrophic. Watching the mesmerizingly intense match from the stands was von Cramm’s mentor and all-time tennis superstar Bill Tilden–a consummate showman whose double life would run in ironic counterpoint to that of his German pupil. Set at a time when sports and politics were inextricably linked, A Terrible Splendor gives readers a courtside seat on that fateful day, moving gracefully between the tennis match for the ages and the dramatic events leading Germany, Britain, and America into global war. A book like no other in its weaving of social significance and athletic spectacle, this soul-stirring account is ultimately a tribute to the strength of the human spirit.

Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty First Century An Encyclopedia written by Steven A. Riess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals—not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds—along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies—plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs—round out the coverage.

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