Buddy Hall - RIP

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
 
jay helfert said:
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.
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I'm wondering if Alfie Taylor is still around. Wrote a fascinating book reflecting his pool travels around the country!
 
ShootingArts said:
... 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
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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.
 
JAM said:
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.
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My full name is Ross Keith Thompson, I went by Keith Thompson until I started working when I was 20 yrs old and went by Ross Thompson. My wife and family always called me Keith. My dad was named Ross so my family called me by my middle name.
 
Keith thompson said:
My full name is Ross Keith Thompson, I went by Keith Thompson until I started working when I was 20 yrs old and went by Ross Thompson. My wife and family always called me Keith. My dad was named Ross so my family called me by my middle name.
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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! 🥰
 
Everyone,

Buddy's granddaughter has put a fund raiser in effect for one of pools biggest legends and I can't believe it has not reached
its goal yet...I donated 50$ and hope everyone that has a couple of bucks to honor the rifleman will donate as well.

www.gofundme.com

Donate to Celebrate Buddy Hall's Legacy and Life, organized by Lucy Hall

Help Honor a Pool Legend: Cecil P. "Buddy" Hall Cecil P. "Buddy" Hall, a true… Lucy Hall needs your support for Celebrate Buddy Hall's Legacy and Life
www.gofundme.com www.gofundme.com

Best to all of you
 
JAM said:
I was a wee bit disappointed in the turnout for Buddy Hall's GoFundMe campaign to help the family with funeral costs. Hundreds of posts on social media and elsewhere were shared by pool people, sharing a Buddy story and just stating how much Buddy Hall meant to them. His granddaughter, Lucy Hall, created the GoFundMe, maybe too late, though, less than a week before his funeral and celebration of life. Buddy Hall's birthday would have been yesterday, same day as the celebration of life at Sully's and the Funeral Home wake. He would have been 80.

His granddaughter was hoping to raise $8,000 for the celebration of life and funeral costs, which is modest. When I went to bed last night, the total was $2,460. When I woke up this morning, the total was, $3,460. Earl Strickland contributed $500. Say what you want about Earl, but that's really decent of him. Wow!
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Earl also donated 1000$ to Immonen's cancer therapy fundraiser.The pearl is a stand up guy in my book.
 
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