2014 Straight Pool Hall of Fame

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NOMINATIONS for the 2014 Inductees into the Straight Pool Hall of Fame are now being accepted! Names submitted thus far include Lou Butera, Frank "Sailor" Stellman, Tom Jennings, Allen Hopkins, Jim Rempe, Nick Varner, Ed Kelly. Please submit yours! Final vote will fall upon 141 Club Members so join today! Banquet & Induction on August 6th 7:30pm at Steinway Cafe-Billiards. Purchase tickets online at www.worldstraightpool.com click onto 141 Club.
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Nice group of nominees this year. Notably absent are Mike Sigel and Dallas West. I am torn between 1977 PPPA World 14.1 Champion Allen Hopkins and 1981 PPPA World 14.1 Champion Nick Varner as most deserving.

Of those nominated, I'd vote for Allen Hopkins here. As a founding father of the PPPA, the players organization that lasted from 1976-86 and which produced nine World 14.1 Championships, Allen deserves recognition for more than just his exceptional play in competition but also for his service to the game of 14.1.

PS Although I have no idea whether he is still alive, Tom Jennings is one of the better pool stories of all time. He was a college professor of mathematics in New Jersey who shot well enough to win two US Open 14.1 titles. Those New Jersey educators can sure shoot straight. There was this English teacher named Mizerak, too. Never gamble at 14.1 with a New Jersey educator!
 
Living: Allen Hopkins
Deceased: Cisero Murphy

I'm surprised they haven't put Willie Mosconi, Ralph Greenleaf or Irving Crane in yet...but there is a pretty long list to choose from.
 
West Point 1987 said:
Living: Allen Hopkins
Deceased: Cisero Murphy

I'm surprised they haven't put Willie Mosconi, Ralph Greenleaf or Irving Crane in yet...but there is a pretty long list to choose from.
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Some of you may remember a thread from 2 years ago at this time when DP was soliciting votes for the HOF. I said: "The overlap with the BCA HOF is unsettling. Do we really need to honor people twice for the same thing? One possible way around that would be for DP to automatically place in its HOF all of those people who are in the BCA HOF because of their 14.1 achievements. Just do it en masse -- no nominations, no voting. Read their names at the next induction ceremony, but don't let Charlie go on for 30 minutes about each of them. Then, for the future, DP could focus more on all the other great figures in the history (and present) of 14.1. And it could be more than one deceased person and one living person per year."

Well, a week later (perhaps there was no connection at all; I don't know) in an AzB Headlines article, DP announced that " "World Champions from 1912 on through the earlier decades of 14.1 history will also be included and recognized as a group."

So that went part way toward what I proposed. And I imagine it included guys like Greenleaf, Mosconi, and Crane.

But I don't recall seeing anything published that lists the players now in DP's 14.1 HOF. It would be nice to have that list in front of us when thinking about who else should be inducted.
 
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