Pool author John Koeppel from Memphis?

Bob Jewett said:

I'm trying to find more info on the author of a 300-page pool book I have. It has an ISBN and an LOC card number but both of those go nowhere. It was published in 1981 in Memphis.

I think this might be about him:

John Bernard Koeppel obituary (CommercialAppeal)

JOHN BERNARD KOEPPEL, 91, of Memphis, retired piano tuner, died September 21, 2006. Mr. Koeppel was born July 9, 1915 to Frederick Koeppel and Elmira Carrington Koeppel in Creston, Iowa. Mr. Koeppel came to Memphis in 1954 from Rochester, New York. He was the widower of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Welty Koeppel who died June 19, 2006 after 66 years of marriage. Mr. Koeppel was a member of Schoolfield United Methodist Church. He is survived by his two....

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Bob Jewett said:

Thanks. I have, as they say, "reached out to" Fred.

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Bob Jewett said:

I'd say it's the writing of an interested amateur who has thought a lot about the game. He has his own vocabulary. For example, he reports that Mosconi used a "slide" stroke on every shot.

I haven't found any discussion I haven't seen before but I haven't read the whole thing.

As with a lot of self-published books, an editor could have helped. "Eschew surplussage!" -- Mark Twain

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Bob Jewett said:

The name of the "publisher" was an indirect reference to John's work as a piano tuner.

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