March 21, 2002- ACTHL (pronounced-ACT-TEL) is born. Adam Zawislak begins e-mailing both buyers & sellers on Ebay who are searching for table hockey games & parts. Printed flyers were also mailed to sports card shop in the NY, PA, NJ & Ct areas.
March 22, 2002- Triple Gold Trophies of Toronto, Canada is given the job of building the ACTHL CUP, "Hoboken Holy Grail".
March 30, 2002- Adam discovers that their is a world of table hockey players & collectors. Web sites like www.tablehockeycentral.com created by Warren Klotz (Vancouver Table Hockey League) help bring table hockey players/collectors together.
June 6, 2002- The ACTHL Web site has been started. The site is hosted by Tripod.com. The web address starts off as https://www.tripod.com/mrmetnj/acthl
June 7, 2002- The ACTHL CUP has cleared Canadian Custom, and is on an UPS truck in Syracuse, New York.
June 10, 2002- History of the ACTHL Trophy began today. The 20 1/2 x 13 x 13 award was delivered by UPS at 10:07 am. This trophy will be awarded to the ACTHL Champion after each league season. The Champion will hold this trophy from the moment his wins the championship until the beginning of the next ACTHL season.
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August 13, 2002- Jerry Randell and Adam Zawislak, after walking in the summer heat & humidity, fine the ACTHL first Hoboken bar to play its league games. The Green Rock Tap & Grill.
September 14th, 2002- The "Core Of Four" was formed (Adam Zawislak, Jerry Randell, James Friedl & Phil Valensi). The original four table hockey teams held preseason at the Green Rock.
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October 12th, 2002- ACTHL Vintage League begins its first season.
November 9th- Craig "Matts" Sierak drives from Camp Hill, PA. to play table hockey.
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December 21st, 2002- Chris Johnston and his son Rush Miller join ACTHL.
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January 18th, 2003- Andrey Krukov and Todd Bouverot enter the ACTHL.
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February 8th, 2003- ACTHL's new home becomes O' Donoghues in Hoboken, between First & Garden.
April 12th, 2003- The end of the regular season. Craig Sierak (Express) that first place & President's Trophy winner.
May 10th & May 17th, 2003- Craig Sierak (Express) vs. Andrey Krukov (Moscow Dynamos) for the first ever ACTHL CUP. Dynamos defeat the Express 3 games to 2, and becomes the first player to hoist the ACTHL CUP.
March 22nd, 2003- Roger Owens, Cat Merto and John McAuley join a few of the Vintage players in some preseason Stiga table hockey.
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June 25th, 2003- Kim Hartmoyer puts down her scorecards & pen, and becomes a player in ACTHL.
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