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An article from 1991 reports on Allen Hopkins running 9 racks at a tournament in Florida.

For sale, 38 issues of Billiards Digest from the 1st issue to December 1984. $100 includes shipping via USPS Priority Mail flat rate box. The issues vary from good to very good condition and are mostly complete but some of the ad inserts are missing. PM with any questions.

One article about Larry Hubbart's involvement with starting the APA. Perhaps this evolved into the magazine produced by the APA.

I am selling back issues of Billiards Digest. 127 issues available from 1978 to 1998 including the first two issues from 1978. I believe most are complete but some of the early issues are missing the center pages which I think were just brochures from billiard product companies. Looking at the...

Hi Bob, would you have any other PPPA yearbook/programs?

Tournament reports from 1982. David Howard and Mike Zuglan battle it out in Norfolk and New London. Mike Sigel takes $10k in Nashville. Interesting that Sigel and Buddy Hall were not at the US Open. Steep drop off in prize money might be the reason, I suspect more $ changed hands after the...

Tournament reports from 1982. David Howard and Mike Zuglan battle it out in Norfolk and New London. Mike Sigel takes $10k in Nashville. Interesting that Sigel and Buddy Hall were not at the US Open. Steep drop off in prize money might be the reason, I suspect more $ changed hands after the...

I have two issues of American Pool Player magazine. November 1982 (volume 1 number 5) and January 1983 (Volume 2 number 1). Does anyone know how many issues of the magazine were produced? It is similar to early Pool and Billiard magazine. It contained full page black and white photos and reports...

Profiles of the ladies

Profiles of some of the players

Attached is the cover of the 1980 PPPA Yearbook. This also seems to serve as the program for the 1980 straight pool championship in NYC.

This clipping is from the December 21, 1987 issue of the York, PA Dispatch. Third paragraph says Hopkins had just won the 14.1 and rotation events in Osaka.

Also, in late 1990 West End Billiards held a round robin, $10,000 winner take all shoot-out between Varner, Sigel, Hopkins and Jimmy Fusco with Varner coming out on top over Hopkins. While not related to Earl in anyway, it does confirm that Sigel was a pretty good one pocket player. He beat...

The December 1991 issue of Billiards Digest contained this article in which the pros were polled on who they considered to be the best. At this time, Sigel had already backed off from competing as often as he had in the past but was still right behind Varner in nine ball and number one in...

You can research back issues of National Billiard News by visiting the Goldmine here at AZ. Lots of tournament results in NBN. On a related note, hasn't it always been difficult to earn a living just by playing tournaments?