New billiard encyclopedia out

[Dean_H]

I saw this on the CEB site and thought I would share it. I am not sure if this deals only with three cushion or covers all the Carom games.


Enzyklopädie des Billardsports.


Haase, Dieter / Weingartner, Heinrich
Enzyklopädie des Billardsports.
Die Welt-, Europa-, Deutschen und Österreichischen
Meisterschaften im Carambolbillard von 1903 bis 2008.
Wien: Verl. H. Weingartner 2009 - 3 Bände
ISBN: 978-3-200-01489-3
Unter Mitarbeit von Kurt Dahlhaus, Manfred Hekerle, Peter Stöger
XXII, 1853 Seiten. 2667 Abb./Fotos

Three volumes cover more than 1900 tournaments, describing the World and European Championships as well as the national German and Austrian Championships, from the very beginning in 1903 to the end of 2008. The centre of the authors` research was the Billiards Museum in Vienna and the important libraries of Europe und the USA. But there are also essential contributions from experts from all over the world. More than 2600 pictures and sketches present the great champions and the development of our sports. The index of players and places of tournaments helps the reader to find any information quickly.
The authors have tried to present a basic work on the development of Carom sports. We hope we have reached the goal.
The price for the book amounts to 148,00 € without postage.

Order from:
Firma Heinrich Weingartner (Austria) Dieter Haase (Germany)
Fax: 0043/1/98521504 Fax: 0049/(0)561/3164862
Email: billard@weingartner.co.at Email: haase@uni-kassel.de

 

[Snookered007]

Sounds like a great book, is there a english version?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Sounds like a great book, is there a english version?

There is no English version, but for the records themselves you don't need to know much German.

The sections are:
straight rail (free game)
45/2 and 47/2 balkline
45/1 and 47/1 balkline
71/2 balkline
one cushion
three cushion
artistic billiards
pentathlon
juniors
women
index

There are many pictures of people and events. The results are usually presented in table form with W/L, average, best game, high run for each player, with one to three tournaments listed per page.

Pictures of the champions include their birth dates and a list of titles for each one. For example, under the European 71/2 championships, Ceulemans's picture shows his birthday of 12.7.1937 and titles in 1963, 1966, 1968, 1971 and 1978.