Straight Shooter in Racine

I really enjoy your posts, JAM! Thanks.

Nice article. He is right in my neck of the woods. I know Arnold (Bonnie) and another guy that has trained with Sailor.

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I like seeing the dots on his table, and can imagine the hard work waiting
for someone with each one! :smile:

Looks like a hitman ready to take someone out, in his younger days.... I'm sure
every one of us wanted early on to be that guy.... and from his bio. he took out many
on the table over the years.

Thanks JAM.

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Great article! There are a few people here who play with his cues and at least one or two who've worked on their game with him. Nice to see him get some recognition in the local media and the pictures are great!

Cool article; thanks for posting it JAM.

I remember him sneaking up on some hustlers in Detroit at the state championships held in the fairgrounds in 1963. He beat a few of them before they left him alone. Pretty telling that guys like Cornbread and Babyface never came over to where he was playing. They knew him! Sailor was wearing overalls and looked like some farmer.

jam
thanks for the story and pics.....:thumbup:

In post # 3,him sitting in high chair in corner,just out of curiosity,what size shoes are those ??? LOL

Jam, as usual, awesome!! Thanks it's nice seeing you post on here!

More on Sailor

Here is a little something on Sailor's life that Bob Treff, a student of Sailor's put together a few years back. http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=327562&highlight=Sailor+Stellman

Here is something Don Wardell wrote up after he and Mark Wilson paid a visit to Sailor:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=238333&highlight=Sailor

And here is an article that George Fels wrote for Billiards Digest about Sailor a few years back.

http://www.billiardsdigest.com/showblogentry.php?id=84


He is still hard at work, teaching anyone who he thinks has the right attitude. He comes down to Red Shoes in Chicago, whenever he can hitch a ride and loves the action.

So, I finally get a look at Sailor Stellman! Thanks, "JAM," for posting this!

"Grindz" says that that the picture of Sailor wearing a skimpy-brim hat and holding his Rambow makes him look like a hitman, and he is right about that. Then an article posted by "DMGWalsh" claims that Stellman didn't go with his buddies to play pool until they physically carried him to the poolroom. Anybody got a picture of those two?!

Stellman says that, when he and his buddies played pool, his buddies played for fun, but that he was playing to become a pool player. This was exactly my situation when I was seventeen. I am still in contact with the three friends with whom I first played pool, on a basement table at one of their houses. The chalk got in my blood, as Sailor says of himself, that first night. The other three were completely immune.

One point of criticism. If you have a jaw line like Sailor's when you are young, you should never, ever, wear facial hair.