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Dave Blatt – PFA Player Profile for Week 10/16/17
Dave Blatt Paddleball Profile By Jimmy Kandylas “I’ll play with the kid”, I said, sentencing the kid’s mom to play with my dad. The kid and his mom played together a lot; they were a pretty tough team, but they were usually willing to split up for a “children vs....
Susan Stephen – PFA Player Profile of the Week for 10/10/17
Susan Stephen Paddleball Profile By David Siegel Meet Susan Stephen, the winner of the last two major women's paddleball events. In September, she, along with her partner, Kathy Guinan, won the 2017 Las Vegas Paddleball Tournament and this past Oct. 7, again with...
Robert Sostre – PFA Player Profile of the Week for 10/02/17
Robert Sostre Paddleball Profile By Dave Siegel & Mike Melendez Photo courtesy by Alfredo Benjamin Ramirez @ the PFA 2015 Mixed Doubles Tournament Who is the Greatest of All Time? There have been many great paddleball champions in its history, but the person who...
Alex Cherry – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 9/25/17
Alex Cherry Paddleball profile by Dave Siegel Many of us in the paddleball community have asked these troubling questions concerning the sport: Will it survive? Will it even be played 25 years from now? The game is at a crossroads now and there is no doubt that in...
The Incredible Day Howie Hammer and John Bruschi Met Their Match – By David Siegel
Let's go back to 1971 when paddleball was starting to take off at the city playgrounds, up in the Catskills, in Florida and the many beach clubs in the NYC area. It was played with wooden paddles and a "555" handball. The man who was at the forefront of the...
Mitch Goldberg – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 9/4/17
Mitch Goldberg by Mike Melendez & Dave Siegel He's a Master Chef, a gardener, a softball player, a bowler, a magician, a PFA youth program volunteer, an actor and, oh yes, he plays paddleball. It's amazing that with all these activities, Mitch Goldberg is not only...
Sal Coticelli – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 8/28/17
Sal Coticelli By Dave Siegel You all know him. He's played in many tournaments, visited many paddleball parks (usually on his bike) and is forever posting on the Facebook paddleball groups. He is one of the best young players today, very talented and highly motivated...
Nancy McKeon – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 8/14/17
Nancy McKeon by Dave Siegel Staten Island has a secret it has hidden from the paddleball world for decades. It's Nancy McKeon. She is far and away the best woman paddleball player in Staten Island and every player on the Island knows it. We all believe she could...
Remembering Jack Moriarty
Jack Moriarty Born 10/15/1942 – Passed Away 11/19/2011 Written by Debbie Rosenthal Jack Moriarty Father, Husband & Paddleball Player During the summer of 1976, Jack fell in love with the game of paddleball.. a late starter compared to others, at the age of 34....
PFA Players Ranking Criteria
As communicated in my earlier Post, below is the PFA players ranking criteria. These are not perfect but we have to get started with something and build on it. We shared our criteria with some of the paddleball directors in the game and they agreed with it. As I...
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