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May God bless Mike and his family.

The chair is probably the most valuable thing in the picture.

I know the late 80s and early 90s were rough on a lot of players ,It seemed like the whole country was using coke.

Hoppe wrote a book titled 30 Years of Billiards about all the early small game players, from the beginning days in 1925. Hoppe won his first championship in 1906 he had just turned 19 and played a man nicknamed The Lion of France. Kind of a David and Goliath scenario. I think that picture...

The best archer I ever saw was Lord Toranaga on Shogun, in a tent at night he shoots through a wall and buries an aroow in the post Blackthorne was talking about. That's some pretty good arrowing imo.!

I believe you are actually proving the point you are denying, condemning , although I could be wrong.

There is some video of a guy from sometime in the early 1900s named George "Armless" Sutton , there was actually another George Sutton , who had arms and both played championship level . Armless had lost both arms in a farming accident as a child Watching him make billiards with a full length...

I use them old fishin reels for hood ornaments.

When I was young , I was a bit of a wild man. But I never carried a gun or knife because I was pretty sure I would use them if it became necessary. One night, I was in a dark, smoky, smelly, pool room in a basement of a block building. It had one steel door and no windows. Rule number 1...

I watched this guy destroying Jose Parica at banks at a tournament, in the late 90s when Jose was still a monster, so don't think he could not play He barely missed making his winning ball a couple of times and got a little animated and Jose ran over to the tournament director and complained and...

well, crud I didn't know you was a deety.

Plus in the special Hu class , the questions were a lot easier. Examples 1. Was you ever president 2. Was your sister ever president, 3. How many heads does a president have {usually} 4. How many Hu does it take to make a belly laugh..... hint.....huhuhuhuhu

If you can only run to the 5 ball, it doesn't matter what radius your tip is, buy yourself a file or a tip shaper and make it the shape you want, also pull the stopper out of your bung holio. I just saw the part where you worked on the tip yourself, never mind what I said , you are helpless...

Of course, heck ,if you just worked at a job making union scale, your lifetime earnings might not be as high, but even after p[aying taxes , you would have ended up in a much better financial situation and been able to collect social security in your old age. Instead of trying to live on 300 a...

Without backers , there is no dumping,

I'm your man! Especially with the onset dimentia

There were dynasties of great players long before Hoppe and the others you mentioned. men who were very famous and well revered in their time ,during the time when billiards was the sport of kings.

I have always felt that the person who would have suffered most of the late 60s to the 90s players if the pockets were tighter was Sigel, he hit more rails in front of the pockets than any player I ever watched. But they almost always went in.

Thats about normal , especially Brunswick 1 2 and 3s . I have no experience with Brunswick tables made after that. Diamond tables usually only play 1/2 diamond short.

That's the exact opposite of most of them I have come across, when they are done they leave your cue in a corner , for you to find, never got a jelly roll and most times never got a thank you. One guy told me , you know how I am ! Yeah , you're right, I knew better. Giving jelly made me a lot...