Mosconi 526 Stop the Steal
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THAT
SHOULD BRING
THE GROUPIES
OUT OF THE WOODWORK
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Actually, this is a really good point. This is a record that nobody has been trying, in any organized way, to reach. In "regular" sports a record comes along during the course of the normal season. In this case, you have to make a specific effort to beat the record because it cannot come up in the course of regular play. This fits nicely with the idea that records do not really represent what we want them to. Take the single season home run record. They were going to put an asterisk next to Roger Maris' record because the season had been lengthened since Ruth set the record. Records are rough indicators of achievement but there are often so many variables that it makes it impossible to compare the original record with the one that surpasses it. We want records to be the final word on who was the best at something but that just isn't possible, IMO.
I think you and others tend to romanticize the era and Mosconi himself. Every exhibition flyer I've ever seen from before the 526 run prominently featured whatever his current top and most recent high runs were. To suggest it was just a casual throw away run for him is really not supported by anything I've seen. Yes, a different era, different equipment, different circumstances....but ahigh run was never anything more or less than a high run. Mosconi had finished a match to 200 and kept shooting. Unless he didn't read his own flyers he knew exactly what his previous high runs were and its pure conjecture to suggest you know he wasn't thinking about putting up a big number. Of course he was.
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Saying it was "just a job" for Mosconi is hardly romanticizing anything.
Sure he knew what his high run was -- every 14.1 player knows what their high run is. But that does not mean that it was something he cared about, other than as a bit of PR. In talking with other 14.1 aficianados, it's been said that Mosconi himself thought he had run over 600 four times. And, the general consensus is that if someone had beaten his 526, he would have shrugged and gone off and beaten whatever the new record was within a month. He could run big numbers at will but he had no motivation to do so.
Lou Figueroa
8intheside
Active member
there is suppose to be a video of him breaking the record. Why hasn’t this video been produced for the world to see? you Can’t blame anyone who is skeptical until it is shown.
Fay
Member
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
I AM VERY FLATTERED AND HUMBLED
THAT MY STYLE IS CATCHING ON
♡
TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING AND WORTHY OF PRAISE
IS GREAT
BUT TO DO IT FIRST
IS GREATEST STILL
JUST LIKE MOSCONI VS SCHMIDT
I HAVE ALWAYS FELT MORE ADMIRATION
TOWARD TRENDSETTERS AND TRAILBLAZERS
JEROME KEOGH - FOR INVENTING 14.1
FRANK TABERSKI - 14× CHAMPION
RALPH GREENLEAF - 16× CHAMPION
IRVING CRANE - FOR THE STYLE AND CLASS HE DID IT WITH
WILLIE MOSCONI - 19× CHAMPION AND KNOWN FOR A RUN THAT HAS HELD UP FOR 65 YEARS
SAYING WHO WOULD WIN IN A HYPOTHETICAL MATCH
BETWEEN SOMEONE ALIVE + SOMEONE DEAD = SILLY
WE CAN ALL BE IMPRESSED BY DIFFERENT THINGS
I'M SIMPLY STATING MY THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC
EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT DAY
♡
I AM VERY FLATTERED AND HUMBLED
THAT MY STYLE IS CATCHING ON
♡
TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING AND WORTHY OF PRAISE
IS GREAT
BUT TO DO IT FIRST
IS GREATEST STILL
JUST LIKE MOSCONI VS SCHMIDT
I HAVE ALWAYS FELT MORE ADMIRATION
TOWARD TRENDSETTERS AND TRAILBLAZERS
JEROME KEOGH - FOR INVENTING 14.1
FRANK TABERSKI - 14× CHAMPION
RALPH GREENLEAF - 16× CHAMPION
IRVING CRANE - FOR THE STYLE AND CLASS HE DID IT WITH
WILLIE MOSCONI - 19× CHAMPION AND KNOWN FOR A RUN THAT HAS HELD UP FOR 65 YEARS
SAYING WHO WOULD WIN IN A HYPOTHETICAL MATCH
BETWEEN SOMEONE ALIVE + SOMEONE DEAD = SILLY
WE CAN ALL BE IMPRESSED BY DIFFERENT THINGS
I'M SIMPLY STATING MY THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC
EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT DAY
♡
Could be. Sounds like he wouldn't think much of the crowd that is so wigged out over a man shooting 100 more 65 years later
Sent from the future.
That is stupid.
The video was available for viewing by anyone who wanted to see it.
Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Some things are worth more than money, especially such a little bit of money.
The video was available for viewing by anyone who was willing to get out to California, on a few specific dates and times, with the attendant distractions of food, drink, and conversation, with a significant portion of the video played at high speed.
It would be akin to some guy saying he had video proof of the existence of sasquatch but then offered limited viewings in a setting that did not allow for careful study of the video. There are plenty of guys that would like to take a *careful* look at the run video but that has not, and probably will not, ever happen.
Lou Figueroa
You're a lawyer and you just said years arguing for the truth... lol. Holy shit you need to Post this in the funny pic gif thread I couldn't stop laughing.
Jaden
To be fair, there is one person in this thread that qualifies as being "wigged out" about it
dedicated his life to making cases, if not, he'd be the titan of American pool, not the KID from SD