BI is in. Harry is in for promoting action.
Don't know if it's true or not but I heard one story that Harry had/has a 1-800 number for pool players looking to get staked.
Lou Figueroa
Who Would You Vote In To the 1Pocket HOF
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BI is in. Harry is in for promoting action.
Don't know if it's true or not but I heard one story that Harry had/has a 1-800 number for pool players looking to get staked.
Lou Figueroa
Totally agree that Cecil Tugwell deserves to be in. I watched him play several times when he was living here in St. Louis and also got a chance to play him once out in Vegas. Just amazing that after he had a problem with his right arm he was able to learn to shoot with his left and play lights out. Here, I believe Varner gave him a ball and couldn't win.
Lou Figueroa
I think Tugwell said, "I do not wish to belong to any club, that would have me as a member"! (or something like that)
...And as unpleasant and misrable as he could be at times, nobody argued the point with him either!
That was Groucho Marx who said that.
Lou Figueroa
I though for sure he was already in, but I didn't see his name. Is Scott already in? is he age eligible?
Seems like we need to put every one-pocket winner of any tournament since we've run out of names.
For old school, Mike Sigel won a one-pocket tournament or two. So did Dave Bollman.
And what about modern players? I'm sure in these pages we've discussed when shoe-ins like Alex gets in at his age, as well as what to do with Shane and Dennis and even John Schmidt.
Then there's Chris Gentile.
Freddie <~~~ redundant
How about james walden. I think james may have played a few major tournies, but i think people today seem to forget that back in the days prior to the internet and cellphone,that people only played tournaments after they had gambled on the road for as many years as they could (the money gambling was much better) before they played the tournament trail. I think gamblers like james walden and jack cooney never did embrace the tournament life. I know many one hole players who are top ,top players say that in his prime james was the player they feared the most(80s,early 90s)
He knows. :grin:
Living and Posthumously
Posthumously- Edward "Chick" Davis, Philadelphia-
Chick Davis featured in this mural, played with Willie Mosconi!
"Chick" Davis started playing pool/billiards at the Christian St. YMCA
He played in National Championships and he frequently had to fight for the right to play with his white contemporaries as an equal.
He never forgot that and he used some of his winnings to open three pool halls on or near South Street, so that NO other black billiards player would face the discrimination
he had encountered.
Living- Bill "The Chicken Man" Dunsmore
Has played the best players,
any game,
for the cash and in tournament play for the last 50+ years, withstanding 2 heart attacks, he still finds joy at the table and at the lathe
He builds amazing cues, ask anyone who owns one (myself included)!!
And of course John Henderson!
Posthumously- Edward "Chick" Davis, Philadelphia-
Chick Davis featured in this mural, played with Willie Mosconi!
"Chick" Davis started playing pool/billiards at the Christian St. YMCA
He played in National Championships and he frequently had to fight for the right to play with his white contemporaries as an equal.
He never forgot that and he used some of his winnings to open three pool halls on or near South Street, so that NO other black billiards player would face the discrimination
he had encountered.
Living- Bill "The Chicken Man" Dunsmore
Has played the best players,
any game,
for the cash and in tournament play for the last 50+ years, withstanding 2 heart attacks, he still finds joy at the table and at the lathe
He builds amazing cues, ask anyone who owns one (myself included)!!
And of course John Henderson!
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I'm not sure if you knew this, Lou, but every other year, the One-Pocket Hall of Fame has a category called "Lifetime in Action Award."
This is very similar to the Louie Roberts Award at DCC.
Jimmy Reid received the One-Pocket Hall of Fame Lifetime in Action Award the last time. Thank goodness, he was able to be remembered before he passed away.
Here is the One-Pocket-dot-org explanation of the awards: The idea of this award was prompted by Greg Sullivan's desire to see us recognize other disciplines, not just One Pocket. The way we came up with it, to keep it as consistent as possible with the original concept of a One Pocket Hall of Fame, was to keep our focus on the action side of pool, but broaden the scope beyond One Pocket itself. This was how Bank Pool was originally added as its own category, too, then the Lifetime Pool in Action honor. We did conceive the award as something to try to honor the living initially anyway -- the whole point being to recognize players in the action side of pool, most of whom were going to be overlooked by the BCA HOF because they fell too much in the action side of the game.
Keith, thankfully, is still alive. I would venture to guess that most people know him for his action, much more so than tournament play.
This Hall of Fame Lifetime in Action Award was a great way to celebrate the players who are well known for their games of stake and to be remembered by the One-Pocket Hall of Fame and receive the Life Time in Action Award.
This is so true about the racial divide in pocket billiards before the Civil Rights movement.
I was very pleased to see Strawberry Brooks inducted into the One-Pocket Hall of Fame, but, unfortunately, it was a year after he passed away. His family came to accept the honor, though, and that was cool.
The One-Pocket.org motto comes from Strawberry's famous quote: "One Pocket, it's an epidemic, and there ain't no cure." :grin:
Every region has their pool stars. Here in D.C., Strawberry was ours.
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Oh Yeah!
Freddy let us all know about "Strawberry" :thumbup:
If it wasn't for our oral history and the good sense to write down our stories, we would have no clue these amazing people contributed the way they did.
Pssst-
Ponder this :wink:
Our AzB Forum is a living account of pool and the people who play!
Tribute to OnePocket.org and AzBilliards for paving the way for American Pool/Billiards to establish this for us and give our sport a chance to maintain a global presence!
Thank you gentlemen for your gifts to our sport!
Freddy let us all know about "Strawberry" :thumbup:
If it wasn't for our oral history and the good sense to write down our stories, we would have no clue these amazing people contributed the way they did.
Pssst-
Ponder this :wink:
Our AzB Forum is a living account of pool and the people who play!
Tribute to OnePocket.org and AzBilliards for paving the way for American Pool/Billiards to establish this for us and give our sport a chance to maintain a global presence!
Thank you gentlemen for your gifts to our sport!
Right on the money. This is very true. If it were not for AzBilliards and OnePocket.org, there would not be as accurate a record about pool and its players as there are today.
Years ago, The National Billiard Newsletter was very popular and the only game in town. I bought a decade worth of them from 1976 to 1986, just to have as resources I needed for a pool-related project, but oftentimes the dates were missing. I couldn't believe it. As well, the papers were unfortunately published a month or two after the event. Without the date, it was hard to get exact details.
Today, of course, we are more fortunate to have the Internet. You're right about this website and Steve Booth's website in that it is a gold mine to us pool aficionados. :grin-square:
Awesome mural.i am by no means an art connoisseur,but this looks to be done by a really talented artist.
That is a cool mural. I had never seen that one before.
Here is one I discovered many moons ago online for Cisero Murphy, a mural in NYC.
Here is the thread about him, which I started. It's a pretty good read with lots of contributions from others: Cisero Murphy and Brooklyn, NY
I created a Wikipedia article on Cisero, which received the "Did You Know" Wiki honor, first ever for pool: Wiki Article on Cisero Murphy.
Here's the mural with famous Brooklyn sports peeps, and Cisero is included in the lot. Though I've never seen it up front and close, I do wonder if it is still there.
Here is one I discovered many moons ago online for Cisero Murphy, a mural in NYC.
Here is the thread about him, which I started. It's a pretty good read with lots of contributions from others: Cisero Murphy and Brooklyn, NY
I created a Wikipedia article on Cisero, which received the "Did You Know" Wiki honor, first ever for pool: Wiki Article on Cisero Murphy.
Here's the mural with famous Brooklyn sports peeps, and Cisero is included in the lot. Though I've never seen it up front and close, I do wonder if it is still there.
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Cowboy Dennis
Banned
Since they have the World's Greatest $3 Bankpool player in the Bankpool HOF I suppose that the worlds greatest $10 One pocket player should get in also. I nominate Marty Sawinski from the Detroit area, he's some type of Clark Kentish nurse by day but turns into Superman at the thought of a $10 One Pocket game. I've never beat him for $10 a game and I don't think anyone else has either.
Marty is the man.
RBL
Marty is the man.
RBL
JAM, the dinner was actually only a few weeks after Strawberry died -- it was very close. So he knew before he died, and I was able to do an interview with him. I had intended to do a follow-up after the initial interview, but that I did not get a chance to do. It's overdue for me to post what I do have for his interview though.
Don't know that there's a specific age requirement but I do get the sense that they are looking for "older" guys now.
Lou Figueroa
With all due respect, JH plays around my speed. Barely beat 1pocket ghost in their celebrated matchup in Chicago a few years back.
Lou Figueroa