Don’t care what the NYTimes says.
Don’t care what the BCA says.
Don’t care what Guinness says.
Don’t care what JS’s homies say.
Show me the video.
Lou Figueroa
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How long do you reckon it should take a feller to make 626 balls?.
Yeah, I think making 626 balls in less than four hours is a lot of balls.
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How long do you reckon it should take a feller to make 626 balls?
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How long do you reckon it should take a feller to make 626 balls?
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Thirty seconds per ball.
You do the math.
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It should take them about four hours or preferably less.How long do you reckon it should take a feller to make 626 balls? ...
Don't care what the history books say about Mosconi's 526.Don’t care what the NYTimes says.
Don’t care what the BCA says.
Don’t care what Guinness says.
Don’t care what JS’s homies say.
Show me the video.
Lou Figueroa
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It should take them about four hours or preferably less.
In one match I remember well, Thorsten Hohmann ran 100 (and out) in 26 minutes. At that pace he would run 626 in about 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Do you think it happened?Just to show you how fast Mosconi was, according to his autobiography he made his record run in two hours and ten minutes -- four balls a minute.
Lou Figueroa
Do you think it happened?
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This is not for you personally...just a repeat comment of mine for the "mosconi nuthuggers" and nothing more.Do you think it happened?
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I went to watch John's attempts four times, three in Monterey and once in Phoenix. I witnessed the 390 and the 420 completely and in person. Based on the very high percentage John had getting into the next rack and the months he spent in the attempt, he was actually odds-on to break Mosconi's record.
There was no need to fake anything since he was capable of actually breaking the record and I'm confident that he did.
Always know your sources.... Congrats John Schmidt!!! BCA has made it official so anyone that was casting shade has been rendered moot.... As you can read Mosconi's runn took 4.5 hours...
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I went to watch John's attempts four times, three in Monterey and once in Phoenix. I witnessed the 390 and the 420 completely and in person. Based on the very high percentage John had getting into the next rack and the months he spent in the attempt, he was actually odds-on to break Mosconi's record.
There was no need to fake anything since he was capable of actually breaking the record and I'm confident that he did.
I believe that John ran all the balls he claims and I say that was truly a tremendous accomplishment. Yet I still have tremendous issues with the entire way this whole thing was orchestrated:
1. Mosconi's run was PART of a competitive match, even though it was an exhibition- Mosconi had to play against an opponent for the first 150 points - John's was a solo session in its entirety.
2. Mosconi played in a strange room in front of a strange crowd in a strange town in the middle of night upon night of exhibition travel - John set this all up in one room on one table that he set up to be as easy as possible. I am a 75 ball runner every day on the equipment and pocket sizes John selected, but I struggle at runs half that amount on Diamond 4 1/2 pro cut pockets - John chose to use NOT the standard equipment of pros today, to me that was a cop-out- you are a 20019 pro so use that equipment!
3. I would consider John's record a "practice" record, NOT a competitive or "Exhibition" record - to me it was definitely neither competitive/ exhibition- or a combination in any form what so ever. I think the BCA was very clear in their release to NOT label John's accomplishment as an exhibition record.
4. Honestly I am 100% convinced that Mosconi and several others could have run more than John did if there was any serious motivation to do this - I will include guys like Mike Eufemia, George Rood, Harold Worst just as a starting point of other guys who had that level of 14.1 talent- just no reason to sit in a room for months at a time trying to do this! I still don't know why he did this - I mean- it was estimated that Babe Ruth received 3,000 pitches the year he hit 60 homers- NOBODY locked themselves in a ballpark day after day and counted how many batting practice homers they hit for every 3,000 pitches received- it would seem ridiculous to anyone- yet basically that it what John did for the run record!
5. As I said- I am sure John accomplished this run and Congrats to him for what it is due.