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Maybe the top players have found most of the "secrets" of the game in the last 60 years, and we are seeing the limit of human performance. I think there is some of that. Maybe a little more "oil" has seeped in to the game.

The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards by Mike Shamos shouldn't cost more than $20 delivered to your house. The best place I know of to look for used books is https://www.addall.com/used/ which lists this:

He also finished second in the 1982 National Collegiate Championship while attending Michigan Tech in the UP. He beat me in the semi-finals. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/acui-9-ball-collegiate-championships-discontinued.518888/#post-6764432

Now I see the ref is operating a beeper thingie which beeps just as the balls stop rolling. No display, though, that I could see. The ref seems to give a warning at 35 and sometimes starts a verbal countdown.

Yes, anyone who has played for a while knows where the pockets are without looking. On the other hand, you do see some top players walk over to the OB line to make sure. The "I can't even see the pocket" demo was a favorite of Hal Houle's.

I hope that is all worked out, but that's not a theme in pool lately. :( I just called Big Dog and they have not settled on dates for the 2026 Midwest Expo yet -- so far as the people there today know.

I think he'll be a good addition if he makes it. I hope they fix the coach/captain thing. Nobody up there can beat him since Bruce Choyce left. (A free pair of Bob Byrne books to the first to explain that obscure pool reference.)

On a related topic, recently I gave a pool lesson in London (during my MC trip), and the room gave us one piece of chalk. When we got to spinning the ball, it was miscues galore. I looked at the chalk and it was stamped "made in China". WTF? About $20 an hour for the table and they give us five...

Three and a half. But the games only took 7 minutes each on average, including commercials. I thought heyball had a game clock. I guess they don't use that or a shot clock in major events. EDIT: The ref operates a shot clock, but there doesn't seem to be a displayed time. One ball off is a...

I can see several posts like #44 from a deleted member. Were there others?

And that thread does have a number of now-banned participants.

I vaguely recall him posting here a few times long ago. Yes, ask Rafael. Harvey retired maybe 8 years ago and would be about 80 now.

Some surprises there... Jaspers at 12th?! I remember when -- cue the Tommy Dorsey music -- there was only one player who averaged over 1 for the season.

Previous owner and seriously expert on old tables.

No problem. I hadn't noticed that PS had not only been banned but had been deleted. I don't think I've seen that kind of "unmembering" before.

Chicago is the suggested airport. It's about a 3-hour drive but that's quicker than connections to a puddle jumper. Carpool from Chicago looks like the best solution. Bob owned the building that Bliss ice cream is (and was) in.

No, it was about 20 or 25 years ago that the why of deflection started to be generally understood and the details were worked out, largely online. Nobody was banned. The discussion was tame compared to some of today's threads, and the discussion was on a forum that didn't have a banning...

Evidently, a second annual US National Pool Championship is in the works. More info soon? I had a couple of nice visits to Dubuque. One time, I had a meal in a restaurant there and someone anonymously "paid it forward."

I don't know if Harvey is still around or not, but I'm sure he would know. I think I've seen pictures of pocket blocks installed and I sort of remember that they anchored inside the pockets somehow. I think the nut has to pull the insert back into the pocket when it is tightened, at least in the...

Fargo 750.