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The WPH has proudly presented the WPH Sunday Stats since the start of 2020, highlighting the Race 4 Eight’s and Icebreaker’s greatest champions, longest winning streaks, greatest accomplishments, tournament directors, nicknames, obscure stats, handball’s origins and history, and so much more.
This Sunday we will revisit an article featuring Naty Alvarado, Sr. from 33 years ago in the L.A. Times.
Last week’s Sunday Stats featured “El Gato” as Houdini in Sports Illustrated from 1990. This week’s Sunday Stats features “El Gato” aiming for his 10th national Four Wall singles title in Berkeley, CA, while chronicling Naty’s career on and off the handball court.
“Mentally, right now I’m playing my best ball,” stated Alvarado in Against the Wall. “I have more confidence…”
Against the Wall, from the L.A. Times (1988) HERE
Read Meet the Houdini of Handball HERE
Read the WPH’s Chasing El Gato HERE
David Fink
WPH Historian