HISTORY OF US TABLE TENNIS by TIM BOGGAN

killiegradge · Jun 22, 2018

Ive just ordered Vol. V:1971- 1972 of the series by Tim Boggan. This one covers the ping pong diplomacy period. Just wondered if anyone else had read any of them? I can see myself getting the complete series of books.

zzzuppp · Jun 23, 2018

You can read them all here - (First 10 volumes) http://216.119.100.169/articles/history11/history11_01.shtml (use the 'Additional Reading' and 'Chapters Menu' dropdowns to navigate between volumes)

and (All 21 volumes so far, chapters updated as they're released every week or so) https://www.teamusa.org/usa-table-tennis/history/history-of-usatt

The latter version is all pdfs and I find it clunky to navigate; pages sometimes are side-on, print quality varies. But all the photos are there.

Entertaining reading especially when it's Boggan himself writing (the later volumes are a mixture of contributors), and you have to wade through an enormous amount of USATT admin and politics to find the juicier bits about matches/players etc. The PP diplomacy one is one of the best. Very good coverage of World Championships in the earlier volumes.

PS thanks for the parcel!

Baal · Jun 24, 2018

Hmm. Boggan's writing style must be an aquired taste. I never figured out how to acquire that taste. It amazed me that the dude actually taught writing for a living. He did have juicy gossip though.

killiegradge · Jun 25, 2018

I am enjoying the book so far and find his writing style ok. Having said that I can see myself buying the full series.

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