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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 and stats, longest winning streaks, greatest accomplishments, tournament directors, nicknames, obscure stats, handball’s origins and history, handball champions featured in national publications, and so much more.
This Sunday we’ll examine The Birth of Professional Handball, as told by Stuffy Singer.
Stuffy details the 1973 USHA Nationals banquet, in which the pro handball tour was essentially formed.
“This business meeting banquet was being held the night before the quarterfinals of the national championships, and all eight of the players held a very quick meeting and decided that we were going to threaten the USHA with a strike, meaning, that the quarterfinals would not be played unless we got to nominate our three people for the Board of Directors.”
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David Fink
WPH Historian