by Dean Johnson | Nov 12, 2019 | Blog, Collectibles and Artifacts
How the story of “A Table For Two” is part of the history of published books about the sport of table tennis dating back to 1902. Dick Miles June12, 1925 – October 12, 2010 Dick Miles began playing table tennis on his mother’s dining table at the age of 12. He...
by Dean Johnson | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog
Pagliaro was an American table tennis player who won the United States national championship on four occasions, including three consecutive years in the 1940s. His small stature — he was just over five-feet tall and weighed under 120 pounds in his prime — had an...
by Dean Johnson | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog
Sol Schiff was an American table tennis player from New York. From 1937 to 1947 he won four gold medals in doubles and team events at the World Table Tennis Championships. The four World Championship medals included two gold medals, one in doubles with Jimmy McClure...
by Dean Johnson | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog
From 1936 to 1949 Jimmy won six gold medals in doubles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. This included four gold medals; three in the doubles with Buddy Blattner in 1936 and 1937, one with Sol Schiff in 1938 and one in the team event at the 1937...
by Dean Johnson | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog
In the spring of 1933 there suddenly appeared on the table tennis scene a woman destined for greatness. Her name was Ruth Hughes Aarons, and she would be the only U.S. player, male or female, ever to win a World Singles Championship. In fact she won it again in 1937...
by Dean Johnson | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog
On January 13th 2013, a burial service for Marty was scheduled at the Mt. Richmond Cemetery in Staten Island. As much as I wanted to pay my respects to Marty, it would be an expensive, long, 700+ mile, fourteen-hour round trip. But following my theory of “just show...
