Ping Pong

February 7, 1950, Appleton Post-Crescent

Decades before President Nixon's trip to China in 1972 popularized table tennis in ways never seen before, most rec rooms had a ping pong table and we all were familiar with it.  Table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.   Trivia:  "table tennis" as a term for the sport grew into favor because the commonly used name "ping pong" was copyrighted by a British manufacturer in the early 1900's and in the 1920's by Parker Brothers who had marketed the game to American consumers.