The worst most crap encrusted shaft I have ever touched was Mosconi's after I played him in an exhibition. I couldn't believe how much stuff was stuck on it and how sticky it was so I asked him " How do you play with this"
and he replied "Didn't I just run 100 balls on you?"
Never trust one who...
Dumb question -Efren got the 7 out from Anton and is getting spots from other young players in 10 ball
I love him and he still has 1 pkt skills but his overall game is way down
I was fortunate to play an exhibition with him near Gary Ind and he came in cold - no warm up and ran 100 with a shaft that was so full of dents and crap - I couldn't believe it. I asked him 'how can u play with this shaft and he said 'didn't I just run 100 on you". Saw him run 100 2 other...
When blood first came to LA he stayed with Preacher Red before he and I went on the road one summer and then hung out at Celebrity billiards in Hollywood with our friend Cecil for quite some time when Cecil was right handed
I was fortunate to see Ronnie take off Jersey Red for $20k at Celebrity Billiards while drinking about 8 scotches and 2 pitchers of beer and yes - non stop talking. It was Phil Spector who lost the $20k 2 sets for 5k and last one for 10k. Could not believe that Ronnie could drink that much and...
Not upright when he was young, I was with him every day for 2 mos and around jersey red for a while and their styles then were almost exactly the same. Both playing from same place in txs before blood came to LA
Recently George Hall said he ran into blood in LA but didn't get me the phone no he said he had and also said he thought blood had cancer. Would love to get back in touch so if anyone has info to contact him - please let me know
I went on the road with blood one summer when he was about 19 and we made some good scores up the CA coast with our last stop in SFran where he torched Flip Gene on a 5-10 playing 9 ball and we returned to LA with a nice bankroll. He I and Cecil ran around together for a while at Celebrity...