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Good morning azbilliards, friends. Haven't you heard: Mark Cantrill has started a contest to give away some copies of my new book Bill Porter helped me put together about my years on the pool highway. All you have to do is register on his thread. It's a pretty good book, if I say so myself, and...

the right sport for you, Jay Great attitude, buddy, about improving your game in your later years, I can call them that, because that's where I am, as well. You are involved with the only sport that allows you to do just what you want. My brother, Jack, at 85, plays five or six hours a day at...

Gotta clear something up It seems I have inadvertantly hung a non-deserving "bad boy' lable on someone just because I reacted to how something was said, instead of listening to what was being said. For the record, said scoundrel has overlooked my "po po pitiful me" talk, and has become a pal...

Mark, you shark So you've decided to stir thing up for your new pen pal. And the responses to your poste have me grinning. Well, sir. If you can figure out how to decide who wins, I call your one book and raise you four. Let's please five people, OK? You handle the game and I'll handle the...

Wow guy's. It is about confidence How totally cool to wake up and find such nice words from you posting friends... plus, a couple of book orders. Sorry I made a mess trying to edit out my poste. Jay Helfort's words are pool's "Good Houskeeping" seal of approval. Thanks buddy. You're too kind...

You're good fellow, Mark for passing my offer on to someone who could better use it. It is your book, so will let you know where it lands. I am going to investigate how I can remove the poste, if possible. I'm new at this so I don't know if it's possible. Then it will be a non-issue. Keep it...

Thank you J.B. Case person I was forewarned that, if I delved in the posting world, I would have to face some irritation or negativity, no matter how straight I played it. This is the first time someone took me wrong and, I'm a big boy, but it still bugged me like crazy to straighten it out...

On second thought, Mark Your response to my poste, where I mentioned Allison, though sharply put, was a question, nevertheless. Reacting as though it was an acusation, I answered with sarcasm and contrived snobbery. I've put on my big boy pants now and I would like to take my apology from "just...

My apologies, Mark. content edited out. Please excuse.

Content edited out for harmony's sake. Please excuse. Keep it nice. Alfie

Billy, you really should call me I have lots of pro equipment for that sort of thing that you are welcome to borrow. Remember, I produced a couple of videos awhile back that showed me the difference between a profession and a hobby. A hobby costs money and a profession makes it. But with a...

For you, Prof. I'm always available Some shots stick with you forever. In the seventies San Jose Dick came to Texas with a whole new style of One Pocket. We had been used to Puckett's style of making a couple of balls and playing safe. This California style of "Hurricane" One Pocket, where they...

Nobody did it better than Grady&Alf Hello. Good question about taking off suckers. In the 70s Grady Mathews were traveling together but, at this time we were in Nashville, where I lived. There was a pool room owner named Bob Roney who played OK but went off to everyone who came through. I got...

first I've heard about Buddy I'm so sorry to hear you've been sick, my friend. Most of your fans know you as the greatest of the greats. Eddie Taylor said you were the best nine ball player he ever saw. Eddie, like myself also know you are a fine human being. I remember, both, our traveing...

Sounds good, Sir Jay Happy birthday, my friend. You and I are about the same age, so I know and agree with your feelings. Getting better with age is possible. I know because my brother Jack is 80 something and he still runs out with proficiency. Pool is the ony sport where the yougsters don't...

I just want to thank Lou Figueroa, Billy Porter, Freddy The Beard, San Jose Dick and the others for saying so many nice things about my new book, The Other Side Of The Road...A Pool Hustler's Tale. Quite a few orders have come in, one as far away as Moscow. The new printing shoud be here in...

Chalk is for the tip only I know how you feel, brother, about that blue or green stuff ending up in the wrong place, like your wrap or anyone's slacks. I live in jeans so it's not so bad for me. When I began playing (around 59) we played snooker and anyone who set the chalk upside down had to...

What shoes not to buy. Sometime around the seventies a shoe came on the market called Earth Shoes, that boasted a health benefiting negative heel design. They actually had your heel inches below your toes. It was my hippie period so I bought anything that had the name "earth" in it. I was...

To my brother Grady Mathews A thousand pardons for my faux paux in the spelling of your name in my book. Mathews has only one t. I should have know it, especially since you came to a Taylor family reunion and forty Taylors liked you so much. I have changed it in my new printing and even put in...

To my good friend and old road buddy I'll call the doctor's five and raise him five. Peace, love & imagination, brother. Keep it nice. Afie