Smash
The comeback of Marty Reisman, the most flamboyant figure in the history of table tennis, and the self-proclaimed greatest hardbat player ever.
Ping Pong
The Immigrant Sport
A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.
Broken Promise
On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.
Paddled
An American enrolls in a Beijing ping-pong school. A series of humiliations ensue.
