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    Taxi reacted to middleofnowhere's post in the thread Was pool better 50 years ago? with Like Like.
    While that was a particular format, at the same time 9 ball tournaments were happening all around the country, with the same players. I...
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    Taxi replied to the thread Was pool better 50 years ago?.
    Stu, I think you have to distinguish between the sort of players you'd find in tournaments and the sort of players you'd find in action...
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    Taxi reacted to Tobermory's post in the thread Was pool better 50 years ago? with Like Like.
    Dear SJM, garczar, and Middle of Nowhere, Thanks for the correction on the first name. Of course I meant Carl the referee, not the...
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    Taxi reacted to sjm's post in the thread Was pool better 50 years ago? with Like Like.
    Your memory is failing you. Ed Kelly and Cue Ball Kelly were two different people. Ed Kelly is a BCA Hall of Famer and his nickname...
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    Taxi replied to the thread Was pool better 50 years ago?.
    Now here would be a team match that would put asses in the seats: One team decked out in tuxedos, the other team in wifebeaters.
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    Taxi replied to the thread Was pool better 50 years ago?.
    You literally have to go back 100 years to find pool featured in the sports pages of major American newspapers. And when was the last...
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    Taxi replied to the thread Was pool better 50 years ago?.
    This is also what keeps me interested at 81, and with luck for years to come. Just in the last year I've loved watching the emergence...
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    Taxi reacted to sjm's post in the thread Was pool better 50 years ago? with Like Like.
    All good. You enjoy what you enjoy. The biggest stars of fifty years ago were probably Mizerak, Sigel, Varner, Rempe and Hall. Were...
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    Taxi replied to the thread Was pool better 50 years ago?.
    Tournament play is infinitely better these days, with far more events, an international field, better equipment, a variety of games and...
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    Taxi reacted to Positively Ralf's post in the thread Turning Stone with Like Like.
    Hell of a run and finals by John Morra. Well deserved win
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    The Brass Rail in Durham BITD was full of characters. Most of them were just cushion beaters, but the room was air conditioned and it...
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    Taxi replied to the thread New Pet Peeve in Pool.
    First time I even knew about this stupid rule was when Karl Boyes pulled it against Shannon Daulton in the 2015 U. S. Open. It was in...
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    Taxi reacted to garczar's post in the thread New Pet Peeve in Pool with Like Like.
    Reminds me of the instructions on a bottle of bleach: "Don't drink" Fairly obvious if a player impedes a ball headed for a pocket...
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    Taxi reacted to jax_joe's post in the thread Turning Stone with Like Like.
    Same old crap at every TS. Shaw doing his normal bs routine. The best is the lousy commentators who are acting like this perfectly...
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    In Maryland there was a local trick shot artist named Chester Morris who once got quoted in a local newspaper as saying he'd "swim a sea...
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