best american player at 19yrs
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I bet you will get many different answers.
Archer was pretty solid and at least even if not better at 19 than JB.
I don't know first hand but I would guess that Keith was likely to be one of the best at 19 as well.
Archer was pretty solid and at least even if not better at 19 than JB.
I don't know first hand but I would guess that Keith was likely to be one of the best at 19 as well.
magix said:
Blasphemy... he's got action!
Didn't Efren say his prime was around 19-20? If that's true... he was the best.
I saw Mark Tadd put a hurt on Justin in the finals at a Pechauer stop in Boise, ID back when Mark started playing again. He did play pretty sporty though.
frankncali said:
Keith gets my vote. At 19 he was a freak! On the bar table no one liked it against him. Ronnie Allen, Richie Florence, Joe Salazar knew they had to keep their distance with Keith around. Road players coming through town would regularly get tarred and feathered. He made a believer out of everyone.
8ballEinstein said:
You are right, 8BE, but Keith was doing the same thing to the world at 15 years old too. It just took many of the road runners a few years to pump up enough $$$ to make it to the coast......... Imagine,,,,,,,,,Sigel and Hubbart having the nerve to ask for weight.
I have an Accu-Stat tape of 19 year old Dennis Hatch playing Johnny Archer in the winner's bracket finals of the U.S. Open.
The first and only mistake of any kind that Hatch made in the set was jumping the cue ball off the table on the break in the last game.
If not for that he would have shot 1.000 in a race to 11.
Pretty sporty player as a 19 year old.
The first and only mistake of any kind that Hatch made in the set was jumping the cue ball off the table on the break in the last game.
If not for that he would have shot 1.000 in a race to 11.
Pretty sporty player as a 19 year old.
I'm also jumpin on KEITH'S bandwagon....I sweated a couple of his wars with LOUIE ( big table-2 shot foul) and they were epic. Kept waiting for him to step on his dick, and to my wallets chagrin, it didn't happen. It didn't take long before I was blinded by the light...
Dennis played great at 19 but he did not like matching up with Brian Groce at that age. Shannan Dalton played better than Justin at that age also.
