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  • Was Perry Schwarzburg as good as they say?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 11 09:50:49 2019
    I don't know how many years Jimmy and Perry played at the same time. Sometime around 1980, Jimmy was ranked #4 in the USA. He beat Eric Bogen once at tournament in Houston (that was probably when he reached #4 on the rankings, around 2450 at the time).
    After training in China, he beat Danny Seemiller at a smaller tournament in Hollywood. Jimmy had a winning record versus Atilla Malek, but Atilla peaked in 1978, while Jimmy peaked a few years later. Jimmy left table tennis in the mid to late 1980's.

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  • From John Merkel@21:1/5 to rcgldr on Tue Oct 5 12:25:13 2021
    On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 12:50:49 PM UTC-4, rcgldr wrote:
    I don't know how many years Jimmy and Perry played at the same time. Sometime around 1980, Jimmy was ranked #4 in the USA. He beat Eric Bogen once at tournament in Houston (that was probably when he reached #4 on the rankings, around 2450 at the time).
    After training in China, he beat Danny Seemiller at a smaller tournament in Hollywood. Jimmy had a winning record versus Atilla Malek, but Atilla peaked in 1978, while Jimmy peaked a few years later. Jimmy left table tennis in the mid to late 1980's.

    Jimmy Lane is a Catholic Father, I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRjOYlwTqY

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  • From Jeffrey Steif@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 10 22:07:27 2021
    tisdag 5 oktober 2021 kl. 21:25:14 UTC+2 skrev John Merkel:
    On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 12:50:49 PM UTC-4, rcgldr wrote:
    I don't know how many years Jimmy and Perry played at the same time. Sometime around 1980, Jimmy was ranked #4 in the USA. He beat Eric Bogen once at tournament in Houston (that was probably when he reached #4 on the rankings, around 2450 at the time)
    . After training in China, he beat Danny Seemiller at a smaller tournament in Hollywood. Jimmy had a winning record versus Atilla Malek, but Atilla peaked in 1978, while Jimmy peaked a few years later. Jimmy left table tennis in the mid to late 1980's.
    Jimmy Lane is a Catholic Father, I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRjOYlwTqY

    Concerning the discussion of Mike Stern and Perry Swartzberg, I believe PS was a little older. MS was born 1960 and PS was born 1960 or 1959 but I would guess 1960. I was older than MS but am a little unsure if PS was older or younger than me.

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  • From rcgldr@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 11 00:44:24 2021
    Video from the 1970's (converted from 8mm film) of Jimmy Lane warming up with Bernie Bukiet, who was 2250 at 65 years old at the time, then later a few points of Jimmy Lane and Paul Rafael. At that time, Jimmy was #4 and I think Paul was #7. Jimmy and
    Bernie won doubles versus Ray Guillen and Dean Wong. I think Jimmy won the singles. I only recall him losing once to Ray and once to Dean (Jimmy had a shoulder issue that time), in later tournaments.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmhIazHl-s

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