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    Taxi reacted to jay helfert's post in the thread Great Pool Room Stories with Like Like.
    The riots had a lasting impact on off campus life. When I was there for those two days Kips had a lot of business and a few kids that...
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    Taxi replied to the thread Great Pool Room Stories.
    That's interesting, since just 3 months after that People's Park riot, my GF and I were in Berkeley for the entire month of August. And...
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    Taxi reacted to jay helfert's post in the thread Great Pool Room Stories with Like Like.
    This one is in Pool Wars but if you haven't read it I'll give you the short version. After laying around L.A. getting high and playing...
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    Taxi replied to the thread Great Pool Room Stories.
    This isn't really a "pool story", although pool rooms play a part in it. It's part of a series of reminiscences I've written for my...
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    Taxi reacted to Cuebuddy's post in the thread there really WAS an "ames billiards" in nyc with Like Like.
    I will work on this. I will resurrect this thread if I have to, due to a very busy couple of weeks in front of me now.
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    Taxi replied to the thread there really WAS an "ames billiards" in nyc.
    Couldn't have been Santos, since in the early 70's he would've only been a very young teenager (he's 65 now), and at the time this guy...
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    Taxi reacted to Cuebuddy's post in the thread there really WAS an "ames billiards" in nyc with Like Like.
    Nice write up and great memory. About 20 years ago I was in a tourney in Denver. I met a gentelman that introduced himself as Georgia...
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    Taxi replied to the thread there really WAS an "ames billiards" in nyc.
    Could well have been. The Georgia Boy I met at McGirr's in the early 70's was a Black guy who then appeared to be in his early 30's...
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    Taxi replied to the thread there really WAS an "ames billiards" in nyc.
    I was never close to being an A-level player, but whenever I got up to New York in the 60's and 70's I always made it a point of...
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    Taxi reacted to Johnson's post in the thread What is a Shortstop? with Haha Haha.
    Everyone needs to only focus on the current active important threads that really matter like "Is removing your glove considered...
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    Taxi reacted to wlycdgr's post in the thread What is a Shortstop? with Like Like.
    The funny thing is that snark was about a bump from a year ago, not my bump. But yes, yes I do bring 20 year old threads back much. I...
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    Taxi reacted to Hungarian's post in the thread What is a Shortstop? with Like Like.
    I never understood why everyone gets so shocked when someone brings back an old thread. I kind of like reaching back and reading the...
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    Taxi reacted to garczar's post in the thread What is a Shortstop? with Like Like.
    If they picked their spots right sure they could have made money. Most of the really easy/sweet money was in the bars and the good...
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    Taxi replied to the thread What is a Shortstop?.
    BITD there was a Durham (North Carolina) A Player named Mike Wynn, who could spot any of the local players the 7 and beat them easily...
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    Taxi reacted to maha's post in the thread What is a Shortstop? with Like Like.
    old thread but to answer it in a definite way. a shortstop is the next level below a pro player. next below him is an A player then a B...
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