History of U.S.

Table Tennis
Vol. III: 1953-1962

The Early SpongeYears: (Standardization Through Evolution:

The Only Natural And Healthy Way For The Sport To Be Regulated)

BY TIM BOGGAN
USATT HISTORIAN
Leah Neuberger/Erwin Klein Win
1956 World Mixed Doubles Championship

Photo source: Nittaku

Copyright 2004

TIM BOGGAN
Tim Boggan is a former International Table Tennis
Federation Vice-President, and a former three-term
President of the United States Table Tennis Association
(now USA Table Tennis).
For 14 years he served as Editor of the National
Publication, and is the author of Winning Table Tennis
(1976) and Volumes I (2000) and II (2003) of this
multi-volume History of U.S. Table Tennis. For over 30
years he taught English at Long Island University in
Brooklyn, and since 1965 has been a prodigious writer
for the Sport. Having retired from teaching, he is
currently the USA Table Tennis Historian, as well as
the Associations Secretary.
He has received the ITTF Order of Merit Award,
the USTTA Barna Award, and was inducted into the
USTTA Hall of Fame in 1985. He has been on the
Halls Board of Directors since 1979.
He was a member of the 1971 U.S. Ping-Pong
Diplomacy Team to China, and since then has
attended, as official and/or journalist, 15 or more
World Championships. In 1975 he Captained the U.S.
Team to the Calcutta Worlds.
As a player through five decades, he has on
occasion, in addition to some modest early tournament
success, and, later, some success in World Veterans
Championships, been the U.S. Over 40, 50, 60, and 70
Singles and Doubles Champion.
Both of his sons, Scott and Eric, were U.S.
Junior and then U.S. Mens Singles Champions.
Both are in the USTTA Hall of Fame.
Price: $35.00

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U.S. PAIR WIN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Erwin Klein and Leah Neubergers

1956 Mixed Doubles Win in Tokyo
is the last World Championship for the U.S.