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The Mount Rushmore of Pool - who would you put on?
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First, who say,s Mosconi could only play one game? Harold Worst all around ability is unmatched! And to have a true champion like Shane ,a gentleman on the natch no drugs no alcohol Wow .And ignorant ******* on here knocking him.
1.Harold Worst
2Nick Varner
3Dallas West
4 Efron Reyes
Coming soon Shane V.
First, who say,s Mosconi could only play one game? Harold Worst all around ability is unmatched! And to have a true champion like Shane ,a gentleman on the natch no drugs no alcohol Wow .And ignorant ******* on here knocking him.
1.Harold Worst
2Nick Varner
3Dallas West
4 Efron Reyes
Coming soon Shane V.
I realize that this question is an analogy for which 4 people represented pool the best or who are the best 4 pool players. But half of the pool players listed in this thread would never make it onto an actual Mt. Rushmore of Pool if it were constructed today due to the fact that National Monuments almost never honor people that are still living. The same rule applies to the naming of US Ships, although George H.W. Bush was the exception because his son happened to be the president at the time. Construction on the real Mt. Rushmore started in 1927. The last Mt Rushmore president to live (Teddy Roosevelt) died in 1919.
Therefore, I don't know if pool will be ready for a Mt. Rushmore for the next 20-30 years because Efren has to be on it.
Therefore, I don't know if pool will be ready for a Mt. Rushmore for the next 20-30 years because Efren has to be on it.
Mosconi played eons ago, not many people alive can speak to his ability nor compare and contrast against those after him
How can I ignore a user on this forum? Never thought I would need to know. Wrong.
Is this an American monument?
I agree ...don't want to see any living player on the Mount.
Michael Phelan....the father of American billiards....and a billiard polymath...look him up.
Frank Taberski....he won ten titles in a row and was given permanent possession of the
trophy....slow, Irving Crane- like game, but they couldn't beat him.
Willie Mosconi.....all I'll say is 526
Willie Hoppe.....yeah, I know it's pool we're talking, but this man had an enormous influence
on the whole American billiard scene.....a great ambassador and billiard's first millionaire.
I got some bookends......
Harold Worst.....died before his time.....but beat everybody at every thing.
Cicero Murphy.....won a world title at his first attempt, breaking the color bar forever.
The Industry mountain would feature Michael Phelan, Thomas Foley, John Brunswick and John Wesley Hyatt.
The player mountain would feature Jacob Schaefer, Willie Hoppe, Ralph Greenleaf and Alfredo De'Oro.
The ladies mountain would feature Katherine Haywood, May Kaarlus, Dorothy Wise and Jean Balukas.
Everyone else hasn't been dead long enough, and Mosconi gets his own mountain:grin:
It'll be parked right next to Jeanette Mountains.
The player mountain would feature Jacob Schaefer, Willie Hoppe, Ralph Greenleaf and Alfredo De'Oro.
The ladies mountain would feature Katherine Haywood, May Kaarlus, Dorothy Wise and Jean Balukas.
Everyone else hasn't been dead long enough, and Mosconi gets his own mountain:grin:
It'll be parked right next to Jeanette Mountains.
Reyes--- Has passed the test of time playing all games, including Rotation, and balkline. Straight pool is the only game that would be questionable, however, the only straight pool tournament he entered (to my recollection) he won.
Varner Playing straight pool..9ball..one pocket. How can you not recognize the accomplishments this great player has amassed in all three games. And like Reyes, Nick has also passed the test of time
Lassiter I can personally attest to the greatness of this man as an all around player, with the exception of one pocket. This is where the question of ..The greatest all time in pocket billiards is not a true measuring stick on who's the greatest players of all time. There are too many players that played several games great, but didn't play all the games. Lassiter didn't play one pocket.
Sigel Another champion that played all games great, especially 9ball and straight pool. One pocket was his weakest game because he never really played much of it, similar to Lassiter.
There are many more players that deserve to be on the Mount if you exclude one of the three games from their resume. Players the likes of Hall..VanBoening..Strickland..Mosconi...Taylor...Worst....
I think the fairest question on who would be the greatest player in the history of pocket billiards would be. Taking all pocket games into consideration as a substitute for any one game of the three most played games.. which are 9ball..one pocket..straight pool Who then would be the greatest player.
Example.. Taylor-One Pocket-9ball..bank pool
Reyes-One Pocket-9ball-rotation
VanBoening 9ball-One Pocket-8ball
I believe that would be a truer measuring stick on who is/are the greatest players of all time.
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Buddy Hall would go years without anyone stepping up to play him some. He was also the only one to beat Efren when he beat all the other American players when he made his arrival here.. Buddy is one of the best players to ever play the game! In their prime, Allen. Mike, Earl, Varner, Wiley, Howard, Rempe, wanted no part of gambling against Buddy!
I'd have a nearby hill with only the visage of Utley J. Puckett carved on it, looking toward the visitor area instead of off into space like the more famous guys on the big mountain nearby.
He would have his white hair billowing out from under his big cowboy hat, and be smiling his big crooked "I-used-to-be-the-champion-of-Arkansas" smile.
Puckett was not the best player of that era long gone, but to me he was special, having frequented the pool room where I hung out in the 70's. His personality claimed the room the moment he arrived. Glad to see him come and sorry to see him go, what more could you ask of anyone?
He would have his white hair billowing out from under his big cowboy hat, and be smiling his big crooked "I-used-to-be-the-champion-of-Arkansas" smile.
Puckett was not the best player of that era long gone, but to me he was special, having frequented the pool room where I hung out in the 70's. His personality claimed the room the moment he arrived. Glad to see him come and sorry to see him go, what more could you ask of anyone?
Ruth McGinnis, runner of over 130 balls, who toured with Greenleaf, was quite possibly Jean Balukas' equal as a player.
My choices
Efren Best ever all around player .
Shane Will follow Efren from what I see
Allison Best gal player I know of
Jeanette A real ambassador for our sport
Every one has their own idea and criteria for who belongs on their mountain. If putting a ball in the pocket was all that counted for me I would probably have different heads on the mountain.
Efren Best ever all around player .
Shane Will follow Efren from what I see
Allison Best gal player I know of
Jeanette A real ambassador for our sport
Every one has their own idea and criteria for who belongs on their mountain. If putting a ball in the pocket was all that counted for me I would probably have different heads on the mountain.
