Just happened to run across this earlier today online.
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Willie+Mosconi
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Willie+Mosconi
This Day In History 3/19/54 - Mosconi Runs 526
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Video, or it never happened.
I saw Willie play in an manufacture exhibition in Chicago around 1980, he ran 45 + balls,, split the pocket, never missed, and then stopped to talk to the 20 or so fans. He was very smooth despite having some earlier health issues.
Thanks for that! Always nice to look back at great things during troubled current events. I remember spending 15 minutes alone with Willie a few years prior to his death. I arrived very early at a venue for some trick shots that he was planning and he was there, alone, testing the table using just the cue ball and his cue. He showed me how he was measuring the table for consistency from diamond to diamond and speed; in order to set up the shots to work most consistently. Sadly, he died a few years later; one day prior to my 40th birthday.
I find the fact that he was considered good enough at age 6 to be considered for billiard exhibition play to be most astonishing! Also having 4 runs of 125 and OUT in COMPETITIVE blocks in a single tournament a true testament to his pure firepower in the game of straights. We have no idea where each of those runs could have ended- and this was against the very best the world had to offer at that time.
I find the fact that he was considered good enough at age 6 to be considered for billiard exhibition play to be most astonishing! Also having 4 runs of 125 and OUT in COMPETITIVE blocks in a single tournament a true testament to his pure firepower in the game of straights. We have no idea where each of those runs could have ended- and this was against the very best the world had to offer at that time.
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Fortunately, I found footage. You just have to watch through the rick-roll, then see Mosconi start his run. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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How much did it cost you?
Russ was a notorious hustler. He played pretty good cards too, just don't let him deal.
Last I heard he was in Florida entertaining people in Senior Centers. I think he passed away maybe ten years back.
When this subject comes up, I always think about our late, but well respected, AZB poster OLDHASBEEN, who also saw that table well over fifty years ago. Upon taking note of how loose the pockets were, he opined that "the most impressive thing about Mosconi's run was that he never scratched." LOL