Vic Hershkowitz was a dominant handball

American handball

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 player who played from the early 1940s to the early 1960s. He won 23 amateur national titles. He was a New York City

New York City

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 fireman. His accomplishments include winning forty national and international handball titles, including nine consecutive Three-Wall Singles Championships. He died 23 June 2008 in Plantation

Plantation, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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