Randy Brown / Clearwater florida
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Here's a drill shot Randy used to shoot for long periods of time.
Cue ball in the bottom right corner, right in the jaws. Object ball dead between the side pockets ( which makes a dead-straight-in shot in the upper left corner ), then makes the object ball in the upper left corner... and follows the cue ball in right behind it. Sound easy? Try it. It isn't. I saw him make that shot 25-30 times in a row, many times. Someone told me he made it 60 times in a row and stopped but I wasn't there to see it. I believe it, though. I mean... seriously. Just how DEAD PUNCH does your stroke have to be to make that shot 3 or 4 times in a row, let alone 20, 30... **60**? And he's not betting on this, he was simply using it to get loose.
I hated Randy Brown. HATED HIM.
( but I sure am glad I grew up watching him play )
Cue ball in the bottom right corner, right in the jaws. Object ball dead between the side pockets ( which makes a dead-straight-in shot in the upper left corner ), then makes the object ball in the upper left corner... and follows the cue ball in right behind it. Sound easy? Try it. It isn't. I saw him make that shot 25-30 times in a row, many times. Someone told me he made it 60 times in a row and stopped but I wasn't there to see it. I believe it, though. I mean... seriously. Just how DEAD PUNCH does your stroke have to be to make that shot 3 or 4 times in a row, let alone 20, 30... **60**? And he's not betting on this, he was simply using it to get loose.
I hated Randy Brown. HATED HIM.
( but I sure am glad I grew up watching him play )
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My friend Joe Nelson, from Mobile asked me to relay this story about he and young-gun Bubba Howard
b.1952 (also from Mobile) who played Randy Brown several times.
From 1969 to 1971...Bubba was a monster teenage player. He played terrific from age 14 to 17 but got even better at 17.
Joe had taken him to California to play some of the greats there. They met Randy Brown at the Stardust Tournament
in Las Vegas. Bubba was 17. Randy was about 19 .
They were outside the pool hall discussing the match when Wade Crane pulled Joe off to the side and said: ‘Do you know who Randy Brown is?...He’s the best teenage player in the world.’
Joe said...’No, he’s fixing to play the best teenage player in the world.’
The game was on. Randy broke first and ran 6 racks then failed to make a ball on the break. Bubba had no clear shot and pushed out. Randy made a tough shot, finished that rack then ran 6 more racks. Bubba didn’t flinch. They played all night until noon the next day. Bubba pounded Randy until finally they busted both Randy and Wade Crane. He came out 50 games ahead.
Bubba played many great players like: Grady Matthews, Steve Cook, Billy Incordona, Richie Ambrose, Jack Cooney, Cleo Vaughn, Earl Strickland and others. Joe has many stories to tell about Bubba but I’ll defer since this is a thread about Randy.
Joe has another story about Randy and Bubba as well. I’ll relay it later.
b.1952 (also from Mobile) who played Randy Brown several times.
From 1969 to 1971...Bubba was a monster teenage player. He played terrific from age 14 to 17 but got even better at 17.
Joe had taken him to California to play some of the greats there. They met Randy Brown at the Stardust Tournament
in Las Vegas. Bubba was 17. Randy was about 19 .
They were outside the pool hall discussing the match when Wade Crane pulled Joe off to the side and said: ‘Do you know who Randy Brown is?...He’s the best teenage player in the world.’
Joe said...’No, he’s fixing to play the best teenage player in the world.’
The game was on. Randy broke first and ran 6 racks then failed to make a ball on the break. Bubba had no clear shot and pushed out. Randy made a tough shot, finished that rack then ran 6 more racks. Bubba didn’t flinch. They played all night until noon the next day. Bubba pounded Randy until finally they busted both Randy and Wade Crane. He came out 50 games ahead.
Bubba played many great players like: Grady Matthews, Steve Cook, Billy Incordona, Richie Ambrose, Jack Cooney, Cleo Vaughn, Earl Strickland and others. Joe has many stories to tell about Bubba but I’ll defer since this is a thread about Randy.
Joe has another story about Randy and Bubba as well. I’ll relay it later.
gbru, thanks for the story. I think that's the first story about him here besides the ones I've posted. I remember when we'd stop in Dothan, Junior Goff would mention Bubba from time to time. Good memories.
Back around 70 or so, maybe 69, Randy and Wade Crane stopped into Family and while there, bet someone a few hundred they could, between them, cover every inch of felt on one of the 5 x 10 snooker tables with c-notes. And they did it. Every flippin inch, rails included. I've often wondered how much the total was. A lot.
Joe says Junior Goff was a monster player but couldn’t play for anything over about $20 or $30.
He says the black player Youngblood asked Junior to play for $200 a game and Junior said no. Joe asked why he said no..
Junior said he wants to play for $200 a game . Joe said I’ll take $150 of it. Joe knew Junior had the nuts..
Junior agreed to take the bet after he got a partner to take 1/2 of his $50 wager
They busted Youngblood.
Joe says Junior Goff was a monster player but couldn’t play for anything over about $20 or $30.
He says the black player Youngblood asked Junior to play for $200 a game and Junior said no. Joe asked why he said no..
Junior said he wants to play for $200 a game . Joe said I’ll take $150 of it. Joe knew Junior had the nuts..
Junior agreed to take the bet after he got a partner to take 1/2 of his $50 wager
They busted Youngblood.
Junior was a hell of a player, no matter what he'd bet of his own $. Grady used to say he's play anyone for ANYTHING, as long as he knew they were betting their own $$$. Of course, just how Grady figured he could really tell if someone was posting their own or someone else's is another story, I guess.
That’s a lot of thousands
Amen. They probably could've done it on a 6 x 12 but we'll never know. I was duly impressed. I was just a kid at the time but, I would've been impressed if I'd been 100. I think that's still the most cash I've ever seen at one time.
( Since it's been 50 years or so and memories play strange tricks on us as we get older, it may have been 20s, not c-notes. But I'm pretty sure it was 100s )
That’s a lot of thousands
Well, a US bill is more or less 3"x6" so if you put them on the table lengthwise you have 20 in the long direction and 20 in the short direction that's 400 100's or maybe 500 to allow a little overlap or $50,000.
Thanks Bob. Then it probably was 100s. I know Randy made TONS of cash out there with Wade, so... 25,000 apiece doesn't sound too far out of the ballpark. No way to check with anyone on it, as I'm pretty sure anyone else who was there that day is now gone.
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I can remember a night at Amodeo's Cue Club. Buddy, Howard Schnellenberger (God knows if I spelled that right) and Jr Goff were telling lies to each other over a cold mug. I was hitting balls near them.
Buddy jumps up and runs over me like a semi hitting a mouse, just one game. Howard at least shook hands first before doing the same. Now Jr gets up, I rack, he breaks, and gets to about the 4 ball. Misses the 5. Oh my God. I get to shoot. I finish the rack off. Jr is furious. He goes back to his beer and is cussing them both out. Buddy grins, looks at me and tells Jr, well I said look out, she can play a little. Jr picked up his mug and pouted to the other side of the room.
Buddy jumps up and runs over me like a semi hitting a mouse, just one game. Howard at least shook hands first before doing the same. Now Jr gets up, I rack, he breaks, and gets to about the 4 ball. Misses the 5. Oh my God. I get to shoot. I finish the rack off. Jr is furious. He goes back to his beer and is cussing them both out. Buddy grins, looks at me and tells Jr, well I said look out, she can play a little. Jr picked up his mug and pouted to the other side of the room.
Haven't thought about Bill Amodeo in 35 years, at least. So many memories of those days. The Turtle Club, the Matador, Varsity, Baker's, etc, etc... hard to grasp it was all 40 years ago and more...
Junior was quite a character. Randy and I beat him out of maybe 200 the last time we were in Dothan @ 76 and he was so mad he couldn't speak. We had already talked to him about getting steered around a bit in south Ga and Ala and he was going to do just that. But after we clipped him for that 200, he wouldn't say a word to us. :grin:
tap tap tap...... I'm a little late reading this thread...
OMG..... LOL!:grin::grin::grin:
OMG..... LOL!:grin::grin::grin:
Yeah, it got that exact reaction from the crowd. And Shorty ***ALMOST*** smiled. But not quite. :grin-square: :grin-square: :grin-square: