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Oscar Obert (1931 – June 24, 2016) was an American one, three, and four wall National
Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
Champion. Obert won 42 open national and world titles (which includes twenty open USHA national titles), more than any other player in the history of the sport. Oscar Obert, together with his younger brothers Carl and Ruby, were dominant players in the mid-1950s through to the mid-1960s, winning 92 open national and world titles, including consecutive championships in the early 1960s in both singles and doubles. Obert was inducted into the Handball Hall of Fame in 1972.


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Hinckley, David 2003 "Hand and Ball"
''New York Daily News''
United States Handball Association
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