who was the best pool player when you were younger or now that played in your home room are area.iam from baltimore and in my room it was cigar tom vanover from the 70s 80s and 90s.
best pool player in your pool room.
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Rags Fitzpatrick, Starlight Billiards 15th and Irving St. N.W. Washington D.C. upstairs.
Inky was the house man who wore an apron and a visor and smoked a cigar. Wood floors, spitoons etc. Was a real live pool room of the past. Rags used to spot Willie Mosconi a ball playing one hole and win. Me and Gracy played $50 gin. It was around 1970. Lassiter, Taylor, Beenie and more came through but Rags was king of one hole on table#1
"country" Bob
Inky was the house man who wore an apron and a visor and smoked a cigar. Wood floors, spitoons etc. Was a real live pool room of the past. Rags used to spot Willie Mosconi a ball playing one hole and win. Me and Gracy played $50 gin. It was around 1970. Lassiter, Taylor, Beenie and more came through but Rags was king of one hole on table#1
"country" Bob
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thats some great memories you have there bob!
Best pool player in your pool room
For 30 years the best in Columbus was Kenny McCoy, now it's Chris Bartrum.
For 30 years the best in Columbus was Kenny McCoy, now it's Chris Bartrum.
When I first got in to the game heavy about 20 years ago I would say Greg Riggie was probably the best along with Junior Harris who was living in the area at the time. Cigar Tom would come around once in awhile but he wasn't a regular but he certaintly was right up there with those guys.
In the dive I learned to play in the best player was a guy named Sterling "Smiley" Carter.Sterling was a great guy,and very charismatic....... Cole Dickson would stop by on occasion and everyone would debate who played better(but Cole was rarely sober in those days).There is little debating who was better in their prime though,Cole may have been the best 9 ball player on the planet when he was about 19yrs old.
This thread now has me depressed about the current low level of play in my hometown of Spokane Wa.
This thread now has me depressed about the current low level of play in my hometown of Spokane Wa.
In the 80's and 90's it was Danny DiLiberto and Roger Griffis.
Today it is Scott Frost
Today it is Scott Frost
I would say the best I got to see on a regular basis was Nikki V. It would take him about 6 min. to get the cue ball ready for the break then run out like water. He and Shorty would come in every Wed night. I would walk Shorty's dog Pal for him while he drank his "ice water" as he put it. I got to see Shorty late in his life but he could still get around the tabel great. Now thats a guy that had stories.
Jason
Jason
When I started playing pool competitively around 1990 Bernie Mikkelson was the best in Western Canada and that did not change till some time in the early 2000's or so due to his semi-retirement. Now he is simply the best cue maker in Western Canada IMHO.
Ours was a tough one
. In the 70's and 80's, it was normal to find Irving Crane, Mike Sigel, Larry Hubbart and Pat Howey knocking balls around at Ridge Billiards here in Rochester. Yeh, real tough!
Lyn
. In the 70's and 80's, it was normal to find Irving Crane, Mike Sigel, Larry Hubbart and Pat Howey knocking balls around at Ridge Billiards here in Rochester. Yeh, real tough!Lyn
There was 6 real good players around here all the time 20 years ago Denny Searcy and Tony Watson were the best for the cash in that order with Brady Norris a close third . With Cliff Joiner the best at one pocket, but played 9ball great also and Ron Parks and Jaybird (Jason Brown). There was a lot of others in action at Mothers and Passtime here in Charlotte that lived in NC like Earl, Archer, Hillbilly, Coltrain and the SC boys, Stevie Moore, Tony Elin, Grady and Fountain Inn Red Willis.--Leonard
Ours was a tough one
Lyn
How about, A.HOPKINS. S.MIZERAK, R. MARTIN, J.COLAVITO, J.FRADY
70s HI CUE Elizabeth, NJ, and in the 90s WEST END, Elizabeth NJ, all of the above plus R.MORRIS,,T,ROBLES, GINKY, J.FUSCO and I'm sure i forget
a few.
if u were on the road back then,and walk through those doors u was in trouble!
Javier Franco was his name....hes still around , but hes had 2 strokes....Not the same anymore
Joey Gold was one of the better players among the guys I saw frequently back in the 60's on the north side of Chicago and 'burbs. But there were a lot of guys I would run into at various places that I wouldn't care to match up with, especially at Bensinger's.
Now I'm the best player in my pool room, but only because it's in my house.
Now I'm the best player in my pool room, but only because it's in my house.