interesting article about the greatest pool player of alltime, (Not Ron Rosas!)
Harold Worst
Was Harold Worst the best pool player of all time? In the opinion of a number of experts quoted below, yes, if we consider the major championship games: three-cushion billiards, straight pool, one-pocket, nine-ball and snooker. In the modern era, only Worst was a world-class performer in all the major disciplines, and he was beating all comers even when striken with and dying from brain cancer.
In an AZbilliards poll, Harold Worst was picked by a passionate, well-informed panel as the third-best American pool player of all time, after Willie Mosconi and Earl Strickland. But the case can be made that Worst was the best all-round player, since he excelled at pocket billiards, while Mosconi and Strickland couldn't hope to match him at carom billiards. According to the panel of experts assembled here, Worst played at a world-champion level at three-cushion billiards, straight rail billiards, balkline billiards, nine-ball, one-pocket, straight pool and snooker. Bank may have been a possible weakness, but Worst was a cut-shot artist who didn't often need to bank, and to my knowledge there were no major bank tournaments in his era. When Worst was at his best, the championship games were the aforementioned ones. And during the last year of his life, before he died of terminal brain cancer at age 37, Harold "The Best" Worst cleaned everyone's clocks at those games. Furthermore, who knows how much better he may have become, or how long he might have ruled the billiards and pool roosts, if he had lived longer?
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