In the popular imagination, table tennis has never recovered from its origins as a parlor game. Because it lacks the costly glamour of lawn tennis, because you can do it on a dining room table, ...

One school of ping pong purists holds that the game was ruined in 1952 by a man named Hiroji Satoh. Mr. Satoh was a then-unknown member of the Japanese national team who showed up at the World ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...