WHY did Willie Mosconi miss ball #527?

I've heard mixed reports about missing a ball and also that he claims he was tired and quit. I think he was a bit of a head case from what I've read. But Honeatly who knows what happened.
 
Intriguiging question

This is an intriguiging question. Does anybody know how the balls laid on the table? Maybe a diagram on the pool table thingy.
I can flake out after a 3 ball run! Keeping motivated and mentally sharp is the toughest part of the game once you have mastery of it.
 
what happened when willie mosconi missed #527

In "Willie's Game" he reminisces a bit about the run. He openly admits that
he did, indeed, miss.

The local Springfield newspaper article describes the shot as a long cut.

It seems he was guilty of what Lassiter considered pool's worst sin.

He overcut the ball.

Dale
 
The 2 stories I heard -

1. He didn't miss. He was simply tired and stopped the run.

2. He overcut a long 14 ball shot to the corner.
 
It was probably a miss caused by using the wrong brand of chalk. That or he got the wrong tip.
 
Because he made ball #526. Had he not made ball #526 he never would have missed ball #527. The same holds true for ball #1 thru ball #525. Had the balls not been numbered at all, I don't think it would have mattered as much.
There you go. Clear as mothers milk. :)
 
Does this explain why the domestication of the cat was never completed?

Domesticating the cat. Quite the dilemma, eh Bob?
It brings to mind another conundrum. One that has puzzled mankind for thousands of years.
How do you get snot out of corduroy? :smile:
 
Interesting tidbit, Willie was 40 years old when he set this record in 1957. His 100th birthday is also later this month on June 27th. So this record was set 60 years ago :eek:
 
Domesticating the cat. Quite the dilemma, eh Bob?
It brings to mind another conundrum. One that has puzzled mankind for thousands of years.
How do you get snot out of corduroy? :smile:
I favor a long soak in lime juice. With a little TOI.
 
Does this explain why the domestication of the cat was never completed?

This just shows how insidious cats truly are. They've domesticated us to the point that we stopped trying the same thing on them.

But now that I've revealed the secret, my cats are going to kill me tonight by sleeping on my face.
 
Table

This has been discused so many times here, we all should know he missed the cut on a 5 ball in the corner.

Rob. m
 
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