I know alot about pool history and would like to correct all of this non sense about all the highest runs are and other notable runs to educate everybody in this thread.I’ve heard about this supposed 768 ball run by Crainfiled, does (or did) he personally attest to this or was this something by some other party?
Cranfield ran over 700 twice. When he ran 768 which is the reall all time record it was also an exhibition which was posted for public viewing in advance. Not much of any governing body in pool back then for records and honestly nobody really cared about records as they couldnt profit from it anyways. also to note Cranfield also has ran a 493 and then the next inning ran a 490. that is 2 monster runs back to back which besides the 768 would in my opinion be the gretest 14.1 record out there.
To note if you take all the players that have ever broke even 300 there are only about 5 players ever that would try for high runs. Sigel,Varner,Lassiter and many others would run 150 or 200 and quit which im sure there are 1000s of theser uns that top players did and just stopped without missing. Mosconi ran a 609 in practice and quit to go to dinner and also a 586 with Charlie Ursetti racking the balls at 66 years old and quit the run also. Mosconi told me when I talked to him in Nashville 1988 that he had thought he ran over 600 4-5 times but didnt keep the exact numbers because it was just practice.
Straight Pool 14-1 High Runs (ardalen.com)
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