We all should twitch so good.
Rare AP footage of Willie Mosconi playing snooker
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We all should twitch so good.
When I watched Irving Crane's 150 and out I noticed he do that bridge twitch too. Though I think Crane's was a bit more delayed. I want to say that Caras also did it from the few videos I saw but I can't remember. If so, it's probably a quirk of the time period that others picked up on and emulated.
Thanks for posting that, Sean! It's too bad that about all we have on record is little snippets of a white-haired Mosconi, but it is what it is.
Do you think it could have been age ? That’s why earl Strickland wears those crazy things on fingers. He said he just can’t keep his bridge steady any longer.
It looks like Willie's putting on body english with just his bridge hand. Maybe it developed in his later years.
You are right, todays equipment is superior, golf clubs, simonis cloth, and yes the baseball is juiced, and no there were no steroids being shot back then.
Very nice historical video. Not only it it with Mosconi, with whom not too much footage is available, but he's playing snooker, which I'm not sure I've seen before.
Also, if this is about 1974, this is about the earliest view we have of his famous Balabushka cue. The later looks are his match with Fats, I believe 1978, his instructional video, believe 1980, and some legendary and exhibition matches after that.
Great post,
All the best,
WW
Also, if this is about 1974, this is about the earliest view we have of his famous Balabushka cue. The later looks are his match with Fats, I believe 1978, his instructional video, believe 1980, and some legendary and exhibition matches after that.
Great post,
All the best,
WW
It was Smirnoff and the Black Velvet $20,000 Challenge.
Winner $15,000, loser $5,000. 17 days, six cities. Mosconi won all six games of 14.1 and seven of the 18 snooker matches to get the cheese.
Lou Figueroa
18 snooker matches? How many frames per match?
Rex had no idea how to play straight pool. Anyone could have beaten him.
Mosconi at least knew how to play a little Snooker on the 5x10.
I could have beat Mosconi very easily playing Snooker at that time.
Bill Stroud
I vaguely recall a story from that exhibition that at one venue the cloth on the snooker table went on wrong side up and Rex lost that time.
ranrefael
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Mosconi didn't had all the knowledge and technology players today are exposed to, he was the best player of his time, and non of the players today can reach the success he had
Right, that's why it took 60 years to break his record
Great post...
It's a 5x10 and only 30" high. American snooker table. Probably a compromise for Wllie.
If anything, it’s American Snooker.
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Yeah, that doesn't look like a snooker profile cushion.