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Wkipedia Articles on Pool & Billiard Subjects I recently ventured into the Wikipedia wilderness, with varying levels of frustration and success. Having cut my teeth on HTML (the basic computer language used to create Web pages), I figured I could handle it myself without a lot of help, but...

Check out the link below. It is to a billiard memorabilia website, where a complete set of 13 Snaps (with the original first issue, not the reprint) is selling for $1,500, and some of the early issues are selling for $150 each. http://www.billiardmemorabilia.com/publications1.html You can also...

Other Snap Magazine Memorabilia I was just wondering if anyone has any other Snap Magazine memorabilia. For example, early on, the magazine printed promotional posters with cover images on them, and also subscription cards that were kind of miniatures of these posters on one side. Then there...

Other than finding a copy of the magazine itself, the only place I know of to see some of the articles is on the Snap Magazine Tribute site, on the page dedicated to that issue. These are scans of articles, and some of them are not complete because they were continued on other pages of the...

The Snap extensively covered the Baxter Tour from it's beginning until the magazine closed. In most issues, there was a section in Rail Trails dedicated exclusively to the tour, with tournament results, standings, upcoming schedules and commentary. Freddie and Floyd were good friends at the...

I know that the fellow who runs that billiard memorabilia website knows Freddie and can probably get in touch with him. His name (I think) is Dick Abbot, and you can contact him through his website at: http://www.billiardmemorabilia.com/publications1.html

Freddie was a wrestler for a while, a few years before he helped start The Snap. I saw him some years ago at a BCA Trade Show, and he said he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but he seemed to be doing okay.

Great Quote That is a hell of a quote. So many people who do not understand the sport assume that all you do is knock a little ball into a pocket. However, to be a top-notch pool player not only takes a knowledge of physics (mostly acquired subconsciously through practice, not from book...

Believe it folks, Jay here is practically giving these things away. The prices are far below what might be considered "book value," so if anyone is interested in owning some Snaps, I advise you to "snap" these up quick! The only problem, Jay, is that when you go to the site, there is nothing in...

If you'll note in the description, the Issue #1 included is the reprint, not the original, and even the lowest numbered reprints sell for less than the originals. Also, this assortment does not include the rarest issues, such as Issue #4 (The "Brian Atchley Issue - Volume 1, Number 4), of which...

For those who are interested in seeing the cover referred to, here it is:

Value Of Snap Magazines If you want to see at least one website that has some Snaps for sale, you can go to the one below. This is a billiard memorabilia site, so there's lots more to see there. Also, you can often find Snaps on eBay, either single issues or small lots, and the going rates are...

I thought some of you might be interested in seeing the image above and hearing about the webpage from which it came. The image shows the cover of Volume 2, Number 5 (March/April,1991) of The Snap Magazine. Depicted is one of the rarest cue/case combinations in the world from the Glenn Family...

Covers Of Some Snap Magazines For those who may be interested, here are some of the covers of The Snap, as depicted on the new tribute website. By the way, the website is not copyrighted (read the notice at the bottom of each page), so anyone can use any of the images or other content in any...

Folks, I posted this on the Main Forum before I realized there was a forum dedicated to Billiard and Pool History, which would have been more appropriate for the subject. Anyway, I basically wanted to let people who might be interested know that there is a new memorial website dedicated to The...