Buddy Blattner

Robert Garnett Blattner - also known as Buddy Blattner - ( born February 8, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri; † 4 September 2009 in Chesterfield, Missouri ) was an American table tennis and baseball players. He was three times world champion in table tennis. Later he worked as a sports reporter.

Career

At age 16, he was at the World Cup 1936 in Prague for the first time with his compatriot James McClure World Champion in doubles. This track defended in 1937, where she also world champion with the American team were.

He then began his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals. From 1946 to 1948 he played for the San Francisco Giants in 1949 for the Philadelphia Phillies.

After the end of his active career Blattner worked as a sports reporter mainly in the field Baseball. In 1962 he founded the non-profit association " Buddy Fund" to support young people in the area of ​​St. Louis, who grew up under probelematischen conditions.

Because of its merits Robert Blattner was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the U.S. table tennis and 1980 in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.

2009 Blattner died of lung cancer.

Results from the ITTF database