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One billion Chinese pong fans can't be wrong.
With an all-star team of contributing writers-including Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, and Jonathan Safran Foer-and quirky, fascinating images of table tennis from around the world, editors Eli Horowitz (McSweeny's) and Roger Bennet (creator of Bar Mitzvah Disco and Camp Camp) deliver a humorous but heartfelt paean to ping pong, the world's most popular, yet least appreciated sport....
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Most existing table tennis teams never play each other as a team. "Triples" for the first time allows three-person teams to play "serious" table tennis. The book explains its rationale, equipment and its manufacture, its rules, and its integration into existing table tennis events. It strives to enhance the already popular image of table tennis by adding a "true team sport" to its repertoire, thereby increasing its player, spectator and media appeal....
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The ease with which one can participate in pickleball is one of the factors that contribute to the sport's widespread popularity. Pickleball is a sport that can be played with only a few fundamental items of equipment, in contrast to other sports that require a significant amount of specialized gear and extensive training. A pickleball paddle, a ball, and a court are all that are required to play the sport of pickleball. Because of this, it is a cheap...
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When a mortifying defeat to his teenage son rekindles his lifelong passion for table tennis, keen philosopher Guido Mina di Sospiro sets out to learn the game properly. Guido's love for spinning a feather-weight ball takes him from his local Ping-Pong club, populated by idiosyncratic players with extraordinary stories to tell, to training drills with a world-class coach. This seemingly harmless game also leads him into sticky situations in the CIA...
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Hank Zipzer volume 9
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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With the help of his grandfather, underachieving fifth-grader Hank Zipzer finally discovers that he is good at ping-pong, but he is afraid to tell his classmates for fear of being ridiculed.
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Most Americans view ping pong as either a basement recreation or the focus of a fraternity-party drinking game. Yet table tennis is an Olympic sport and one of the most popular athletic activities in the world. The Ping Pong Player and the Professor is a quirky memoir about the adventures of a Jewish anthropologist and his son, an elite player, in the colorful subculture of this extraordinary sport. The tale of their exploits in this hidden world...
14) Table tennis
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1975.
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First edition.
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English
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Using text and illustrations, discusses table tennis: rules, techniques, and strategy.
19) Balls of fury
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[2007]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
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English
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In the world of extreme Ping-Pong, the competition is brutal and the stakes are deadly. Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenom Randy Daytona gets sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, all in an effort to smoke out his father's killer. The killer happens to be one of the FBI's Most Wanted, Feng. Two decades out of the game,...
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