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1. Somehow make rich people like pool as they do golf, tennis and Formula One. 2. Have a joint men's pro tour and women's televised pro tour with weekly televised tournaments like golf. One week men, the next week women. Make it as popular and lucrative as professional golf. 3. Get companies...

I'm interested in getting a home lathe to do tips but I'm not a great DIYer and the whole idea may crash and burn after I try doing a few tips so I don't want to spend a lot. I looked on Amazon and am bewildered by the choices. Can someone recommend an Amazon or other website or Home...

Good things about buying a Viking or McDermott or [insert others here]: 1. They'll answer the phone when you call. 2. They'll respond to an email if you write. 3. Quality control is excellent. 4. If you pay, they'll send you a cue. 5. If anything ever goes wrong, they'll fix it for free right...

I had read about him over the years as both a great player and cue salesman. He was by himself at his booth at the Derby this year (no customers or browsers) and looked kinda' lonely so I took the opportunity to introduce myself and tell him that I had read a lot about him and knew he was a...

The Old Jaybird above is talking about the place I mentioned. Barley's Billiards!

Yes. There was an upscale room in the Atlanta suburbs in the '80s (I forgot the name) that had McDermott jointed cues, merry widow style (maybe D-1s, D-2s and D-3s) in like new shape that you could rent for $1,00 and use them as long as you were there. My memory has faded but I believe that if...

I believe Jerry Briesath defines it as a "beautiful throwing motion under the elbow."

Dr. Dave has done more for our sport than most all of us AZers put together. AZB would be a better place if people didn't take shots at other people for no good reason. I stopped looking at AZB twice in the past because of all the negativity. Almost every time I posted something somebody would...

Cool cue. Cool guy. Please keep writing on AZB.

At Grand-Olive Billiards in St. Louis in the late 1960s, local shortstop Rotten Mouth Johnson was berating someone and said, "You don't know if a basketball is round, square or diagonal. You're a f*ckin' idiot."

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I bought these three plaques in separate transactions on eBay a year or two after Mr. Mosconi’s death. I’d like to sell them but not sure what to ask so I’ll ask $500.00. As you can see from the photos, one is an Industry Service Award from the Billiard and Bowling Institute of America which...

Thanks for all the great advice!

Ok I finally figured out how to attach these photos. (Thanks for the 1mb info Bob.) Any thoughts on comparable items that have sold, estimates on value or any other comments or ideas? Thanks very much.

I bought three plaques on eBay shortly after Willie Mosconi died. One is an Industry Service Award from the Billiard and Bowling Institute of America. One is from Mosconi’s induction into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame (with a program from the induction ceremony). The last is a golf award...

To echo Garzar: "The older shafts will go on the new butt. Just can't put a new W2 shaft on a Wavy1 butt. I think its kinda goofy as well." Predator has used a variety of existing joints. I have a United joint on a Mezz shaft and it seems to be a very satisfactory joint. They've now created...

I play with Mezz playing cue and break cue but all these different joints are confusing and to me a big turn off. My playing cue has a United joint. It is tight as a tick and has no problems that I can perceive. Message to Mezz -- stop making different joints; it's a negative not a positive.

One of the great grandsons of the owner of LaScala Cue Club in University City, MO (room was around in the 60s and 70s) was curious about what I knew about his great grandparents' pool room. He asked me and I replied in a Conversation about what I remembered. I don't know if he wants to be...

Me too. Air Tag. The better you hide it in your case the more likely the thief won't find it and it will keep working.

I have one, use it regularly after a light Dustbustering and I think it works very well. Glad I bought it.