WPH Press
The WPH has proudly presented the Race 4 Eight Sunday Stats since the start of the pandemic, highlighting the Race 4 Eight’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’ll focus on the legendary Vic Hershkowitz, widely regarded as one of the greatest all-around handball players to ever live.
Vic Hershkowitz won a combined 40 national and international titles, including nine consecutive Three-Wall Singles Championships from 1950-1958. Hershkowitz completed Handball’s Triple Crown in 1952, winning the Three-Wall and Four-Wall national singles titles and the AAU One-Wall singles championship, a feat that had never been accomplished before or since. Hershkowitz became the first player to win a fifth U.S. national singles title in 1954, and won a national championship in every year between 1947 and 1967, with the exception of 1959.
Jimmy Jacobs called Vic Hershkowitz the “Babe Ruth of Handball,” while the president of the USHA stated in 1968, “As immortals are recorded in the heroics of handball, the towering figure of Victor Hershkowitz will stand apart and above all.”
Information on Vic Hershkowitz gathered from the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame HERE
David Fink
WPH Historian