All done. All Encyc's in the mail

freddy the beard

freddy the beard

Freddy Bentivegna
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Everybody's Encyclopedia of Pool Hustlers are in the mail. Thanks to all who bought the book. I am going to still issue book numbers up until #200, but everything is retail now. #'s 160 to #200 are available. I havent turned the book over to the distributors yet.

Beard
 
Thank you

Thank you Freddy, for double checking with me, from all that I have heard I am really looking forward to it.
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Freddy's New Book,,,,,,!!!

Freddy,,,I gotta Treat You To a Great Sea Food Diner Sometime,!!!

If the Bible was Written Today,,,Freddy ''The Beard'' Would be in it,,!!!

Alan Ende....
 
Freddy - I tried to PM you back but yer box is full of fan mail :cool:

I'll see you 2nite about 9

Please send me a PM or something to confirm - thanx
 
Just got mine today! Looks great! Soon to be a collectable, thanks, Freddy! (#39)
 
Got mine thanks. Looks very nice. HB quality is nice. Does not mention alot of hustlers and high speed players that I thought would be in the book, I think you have a whole nother generation of players to write about with the current 20-50 yr old players. Alot of good hustlers in that bunch did not make your book Freedy.
 
'Write-on brother!';)....I know, I know...kind of weak.


Beard..take a break...then, hopefully, you will consider another writing project.

Doesn't have to be a 'tome'.

You write em-we'll buy em.

...thanks again for a terrific book with lots of cool stories. :thumbup:
 
elvicash said:
Got mine thanks. Looks very nice. HB quality is nice. Does not mention alot of hustlers and high speed players that I thought would be in the book, I think you have a whole nother generation of players to write about with the current 20-50 yr old players. Alot of good hustlers in that bunch did not make your book Freedy.
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To make the book you had to incur your reputation before the year 2000. No point in me writing about players that I never played or didnt know to well. It's nostalgia!:thumbup:

Beard
 
Just Received,,!!!

WOW,,,!!!!

Got Mine today and Freddy you Really Outdid Yourself ,!!!!

Thanks So Much,!!!

Alan Ende
 
elvicash said:
Got mine thanks. Looks very nice. HB quality is nice. Does not mention alot of hustlers and high speed players that I thought would be in the book, I think you have a whole nother generation of players to write about with the current 20-50 yr old players. Alot of good hustlers in that bunch did not make your book Freedy.
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I think the age of the actual hustler has past. I can't say the exact time it ended but it would possibly coincide with ATM machines and people walking around with a wallet full of credit cards and not money. There was a time when on Friday a guy would cash his pay check and would have it in his pocket.

If he ran out of money over the weekend there were no ATM to hit, so he kept as much money from his check as he could for the weekend. You would be in a place and everybody had money in their pockets, it was a matter of how you were going to try to get it.

Today you are trying to draw from a empty well and it will never change we are in a new time of how things are done and the hustler is a thing of the past. 30 years ago or more when you walked in a place you knew there was money there.

Pool hustling may be a bit like the old west and their gun fighters. The wild west actually lasted a very few years. From around the end of the Civil war to the turn of the century and it was over.
The era of the traveling pool hustler probably lasted about the same length of time. There were always players making a buck playing pool going way back but the automobile put them on the road and this lasted through, (and I am just guessing) around the 1980's. Not too sure a hustler can exist today. Of course much of what I am saying is speculation but I think I am not far off. It is also an interesting subject do debate. Others may have a different opinion.
 
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Received mine yesterday, thanks. I love the larger size and hard cover-Freddie, you have out done yourself. Love it!

Dave
 
macguy said:
I think the age of the actual hustler has past. I can't say the exact time it ended but it would possibly coincide with ATM machines and people walking around with a wallet full of credit cards and not money. There was a time when on Friday a guy would cash his pay check and would have it in his pocket.

If he ran out of money over the weekend there were no ATM to hit, so he kept as much money from his check as he could for the weekend. You would be in a place and everybody had money in their pockets, it was a matter of how you were going to try to get it.

Today you are trying to draw from a empty well and it will never change we are in a new time of how things are done and the hustler is a thing of the past. 30 years ago or more when you walked in a place you knew there was money there.

Pool hustling may be a bit like the old west and their gun fighters. The wild west actually lasted a very few years. From around the end of the Civil war to the turn of the century and it was over.
The era of the traveling pool hustler probably lasted about the same length of time. There were always players making a buck playing pool going way back but the automobile put them on the road and this lasted through, (and I am just guessing) around the 1980's. Not too sure a hustler can exist today. Of course much of what I am saying is speculation but I think I am not far off. It is also an interesting subject do debate. Others may have a different opinion.
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Macguy, you do know that you tell one of the stories in my book, don't you?

Beard

Hint: Billy Russo
 
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