"If at first you don't succeed" and all that jazz.Buddy was Louie's nemesis!! He kept going back for more and Buddy would hand him his ass every time. Except for once. Louie finally beat him. All was right in his world.
Buddy Hall - RIP
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A few more who are left from Buddy's generation include yours truly, Jim Rempe, Billy Incardona, Nick Varner and ? Allen Hopkins is only a few years younger.
I think Jose Parica is still with us. He and Buddy less than five years apart. They played enough that Jose got Buddy sometimes and Buddy got Jose sometimes. I think Jose came up to Buddy's belly button. When they played I called it the long and short of things. I think Jose was really nicknamed The Little Giant for awhile.
When Jose came to Baton Rouge for a few months I was warned to stay away from the little Mexican. Well, typically that is waving a red flag at a bull. I went over where Jose was playing somebody else and watched awhile. I was using pool as a cash cow and staying away from Jose seemed like a fine idea!
I am sure his wiki page is missing a lot but it still makes for interesting reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Parica
Hu
When Jose came to Baton Rouge for a few months I was warned to stay away from the little Mexican. Well, typically that is waving a red flag at a bull. I went over where Jose was playing somebody else and watched awhile. I was using pool as a cash cow and staying away from Jose seemed like a fine idea!
I am sure his wiki page is missing a lot but it still makes for interesting reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Parica
Hu
I'm wondering if Alfie Taylor is still around. Wrote a fascinating book reflecting his pool travels around the country!
ConductorMartin
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I recorded Buddy's Visitation|Celebration of Life for people who weren't able to attend. It's up on my youtube Channel -
Mike Massey, Jose Parica, Kim Davenport (?), Ray Martin, and so on.
I hope they all become centenarians!
Will Prout
Keith thompson
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I just spoke with Alfie’s younger brother Bobby and he believes he’s in an assisted living place in Arizona! He’s gonna call me tomorrow after talking with his other brother George. When I get the information I’ll post it to ya!
I helped to create Jose's Wiki page as a junior Wiki editor. In fact, that is my photo that I took of Jose on that page. The problem with Wikipedia is you cannot contribute bits of data, even if they are truth, without reference sources to back it up. If you do, the bots and Wiki senior editors delete it. Very frustrating.
One Wiki editor was deleting all tournament wins in USA by some American player stating they were not world-caliber victories. But in the U.S. back in the '70s and '80s, even though there were five or six times more American pro-caliber players, their wins were on American soil, e.g. BCA Open, Clyde Childress, Dayton Open, et cetera.
Jose is the only pool player I allowed to stay at our home. I got to know him pretty well. He has a lot of tournament wins overseas in Asia, but not all of them can be documented on his Wikipedia page, unfortunately, if one cannot find the data in print to use as a reference.
On a good note, back to Buddy, his GoFundMe has raised $5,115 as of the time of this writing. Though it did not make the goal if $8,000, this should help the family with funeral expenses. I do not know who Ross Thompson is, but he donated $1,000. What a kind and generous act to the family of an American legend in pool.
Keith thompson
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Ross, I am so pleased to meet you here on this forum. By the way, I kind of like your name, "Keith." Same name as my sugar plum!
Keith thompson
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I heard that was at the Sport Palace in New Orleans.