Angela Kinsey
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And I just have such fond memories of being with him.
And he was so just kind and warm.
You know, ping pong features very heavily in this episode.
So I felt we needed a little history of ping pong.
I want you to know it has two other names.
Ping pong began in Victorian England.
I know you'll like the sound of that, Angela, in the 1880s.
When lawn tennis players adapted their game to play indoors during the winter.
The game quickly caught on, and as early as 1901, tournaments were being conducted with over 300 participants.
In 1902, a visiting Japanese university professor took the game back to Japan, where he introduced it to Japanese university students.
The first world championships were held in London in 1927.
They were won by a Hungarian, Dr. Jacoby.
The Olympic Games started featuring ping pong for the first time in 1988 in Seoul.