Came across this article from 1977 about the gambling scene in pool and it also manages to intertwine a little bit of history about the amateur and professional pool scenes in general at the time as well. Decent article and pretty well written. One of the lines that I particularly liked was "a tournament program once noted that 'half the game he talks would be sufficient to win the tournament”'. Lol, we all know somebody like that. Our own Jay Helfert also gets a brief mention in the article.
If anybody knows any information or has any stories about any of the players or the places that were mentioned in the article, please share whatever you have, especially if there isn't already a ton of information out there about them. A few of the players you can't even tell their identity from the information given unless you were local to that scene at the time so some of their identities would be a good start too.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/minnesota-fats-where-are-you/
If anybody knows any information or has any stories about any of the players or the places that were mentioned in the article, please share whatever you have, especially if there isn't already a ton of information out there about them. A few of the players you can't even tell their identity from the information given unless you were local to that scene at the time so some of their identities would be a good start too.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/minnesota-fats-where-are-you/