Recent content by Raph Cleary

Ohhh maybe that's why she hasn't been inducted yet, personality wise. Bit like the way it took Earl a long time to be inducted.

Vivian Villareal is the one player that has has been unjustly placed in the Hall of Fame currently, the titles speak for themselves, hopefully the next set of ballot votes would acknowledge her career achievements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Villarreal#Titles%20&%20Achievements

Finished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Japan_Championship_(pool)#Men

Butera ran 150 and out in 19 minutes against Lassiter, I believe it was in the late 60s. I think this was the fastest recorded time for a 150 ball run, hard to beat!

I suppose the events that were pre 1990 could be added but at that point it's subjective to which ones qualify as "World Championship" events. You decide If you think you can, because I certainly don't have the stuff to figure that one out and don't know who can make those kind of decisions...

Good point, but what would the sanctioning body be for the 1988 and 1989 events?

I think the 9-Ball Goat Is Earl without a doubt, because he is holds the record in the two longest and most prestigious 9-Ball tournaments to date.

Sorry Typo, it was $8,000 in 1986. I do trust you, although I looked through the National Billiards Archives, very few but still a few players from other countries.

True, but someone's got to do it. Other that Charles Ursitti no one even tried to keep a track of pool's history and document it, Snooker is light years ahead of pool when it come to this.

Yes I didn't add Earl's titles in 84 and 88 to his wiki as being World 9-Ball Championships, because many people like yourself, kind of, feel that these were not true world championship events (like Johnston City). I know the events their referring to here, the tournaments held at Caesars...

You've said multiple times Sigel is a world 9-Ball champion could you tell me specifically which events these were, that were pre 1990 (WPA sanctioning body), so I can add this to his wiki page. Because In the past you've also said that there were no World Championship events before the WPA, so...

I didn't mention anything about Europe, not sure why you added that. There was some international participation in the events, a couple of Japanese players turned up for in the event in the 70s and Parica in 1978, as well as some European players in the early 80s.

Lowest first place price money for the PPPA World 14.1 Championship was £8,000 in 1986 won by Varner.

Yep "winning 63 of his first 68 finals entered" I added this to Sigel's wiki, when I found it in an article of the National Billiard News, it does sound good but once again like I said before, 50-60% of those tournament were $500 tournament with lots of the top players not in them, I also wrote...

If it's sustained excellence and mass-produced major titles over a length of a career, surely it would be SVB. Like Sigel, Shane has won over 100 professional titles but Shane's only 39 and Sigel achieved this when he was 41 and Shane probably won't retire in the next couple of years and will go...