This is hearsay but I was told many years ago that Mosconi had a career BPI of about 15 in competition, some of that on the ten-footer. BPI counts every safety as 0 and every intentional foul as -1, so this doesn't give any sense of how many he tended to run, but in competition, the toughest shots were typically passed upon in favor of defense. Unlike today, almost nobody continued their run in a tournament once they had won a match. When you reached 150, you unscrewed.
If Mosconi had completed his run every time he ran 150 and out in competition, his high run would probably be eight million, give or take.
That rate of which one and two inning games occurred in competition today isn't even close to as high as it was in the days of Greenleaf and Mosconi. Greatness is measured in titles.
The increasing focus on high runs on easy equipment in recent times has contributed to the death of 14.1 as a competitive discipline and the American 14.1 and the European 14.1 Championships are, arguably, the only true testing grounds for greatness at 14.1.
If Mosconi had completed his run every time he ran 150 and out in competition, his high run would probably be eight million, give or take.
That rate of which one and two inning games occurred in competition today isn't even close to as high as it was in the days of Greenleaf and Mosconi. Greatness is measured in titles.
The increasing focus on high runs on easy equipment in recent times has contributed to the death of 14.1 as a competitive discipline and the American 14.1 and the European 14.1 Championships are, arguably, the only true testing grounds for greatness at 14.1.
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