Thank you, Jay! That’s great insight, and that’s what makes you, Billy Incardona, Grady Matthews, John McHenry, DiLiberto(regardless of the criticism of today’s players), and Cornbread, Lou Figueroa, and Freddy the Beard, so valuable! I would listen to the insights and Road Stories from Gentlemen like you, the Road Players, and the Backers, like a Kid listening to his Dad or Grandad tell stories-completely Starstruck! I really appreciate your knowledge. Today’s Fans, in Pool and many other Sports, don’t want to give credit to the Greats that were so dominant, and paved the way. I know that the Balls and table conditions have changed, but that might mean that the older players were much better at some things! The older players and Backers told me, that if you put today’s players on 5x10’s, with slow cloth and Mud Balls, you’d find out that today’s players weren’t as good. They also didn’t like One-foul, Ball-In-hand Rotation Games, especially 9-Ball! We didn’t even play 8-ball with Ball-in-hand. Today, they Foul, by moving a Ball, and they want to put it back, and keep shooting!
Thanks for including with that crowd.
But I will be the first to admit that any credibility I have when it comes to the game of pool comes from being a student of the game, it’s history and lore. Guys like Jay and Freddy saw it all first hand.
Lou Figueroa