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Getting down to business CHAPTER SEVEN: SHOE SHINE ***** I started my first real job and my first real hustle at the simplest kind of work there is. At the age of twelve I opened up my own shoeshine business. It might not sound like much, wandering the streets of Chicago with a footstool...

PART TWO: LEARNING THE TRADE CHAPTER SIX: SCHOOL DAYS, FOR WHAT THEY'RE WORTH Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I'd stayed in school and worked through the system. Maybe I'd have wound up as a doctor or lawyer. Maybe I'd have run a business or piled up a ton of...

The 'Windy City' breathes hope CHAPTER FIVE: THE BASEMENTS OF CHICAGO South Haven was a small town of about 5,000 people on Lake Michigan with tidy farms on the outskirts. That was the best thing about it, because we'd been used to that kind of slow-paced living back in Austria. We were...

The farm life again. CHAPTER FOUR: SOUTH HAVEN ANOTHER TEMPORARY HAVEN We stayed in New York only long enough to look around and get ready for the long cross-country train trip to Michigan. You might as well have said “Oregon” or “Alaska” or “Argentina”! We knew nothing about a place...

A New Free Land CHAPTER THREE: GOING TO AMERICA As far as I'm concerned, Austria was the most wonderful place on earth. I had my family and my dog Booby. I had all the freedom to wander and play that anyone could ask for. But times were very hard in those years after the war. People were...

Rolling along here. CHAPTER TWO: AUSTRIA: A TEMPORARY HAVEN Where we lived in Upper Austria, in the countryside around Attuning- Buchheim, daily life was more or less quiet. I say “more or less” because in April of 1945, a few months after we arrived, all hell broke loose. The Americans...

Here we go! CHAPTER 1 ON THE RUN The way I figure it, I was a born hustler. My mother told me that I was actually born in a wagon. This was in 1944 somewhere in Poland. If you know anything about history, you know that Poland in 1944 was not a place you wanted to be. Bombs were dropping...

A couple of weeks ago I started releasing pages of chapters of a book in NPR. I'm writing before it's too late. I figured it's time to let the more current 'Cue Games' oriented members/viewers get a peek. BTW, I left His name blank in the pages so far. If anyone realizes/guesses/knows whom...

Jimmy was a 'Personality' He had a lot of 'Style/Dress/Manner/Smooth Talking/Intimidating at the table.

Put some very dark 'Sunglasses' on, it bother You that much!

Not really. Like I said, His best playing days were when he was younger. The Best players playing 9 ball, Buddy Hall, Steve Mizerak, Nick Varner, Johnny Archer, Billy Incardona, Wade Crane, Jimmy Marino, Cornbread Red... could all give Jimmy the (8) for sure!

I can see them better! Why, does it bother You?

No One is scoffing at this idea! He just doesn't have the 'Merit' other choices for inductee's have! Jimmy didn't have 'Longevity' as a Top player! The Best pool He played was when He was very young, (19-25). At that time, 'Straight-Pool' was His Best game, when that faded out it became 9...

Get online and do some investigating! And come back better informed.

I knew Jimmy since He's 18 in Lansing, MI. You want him in the same category as Mosconi, Hoppe, Greenleaf, Mizerak? C'mon man, get real.

Not for the BCA 'HOF'. What's Your 'Pitch/Angle's here?

Then you should put his name up at the Derby for in the Action Award.

Jimmy for sure was a Better 'Money Player' than tournaments!

Jimmy was a good 'Hustler' that played 'Sometimes' Very well in some tournaments! IMPO, All Lee did was 'Market' herself better than other women players at that time! I would have Bet on Lori Shampoo playing Lee for Big $!

Jimmy was a good 'Hustler' that played 'Sometimes' Very well in some tournaments!