Calling Jay Helfert

[Scaramouche]

Uncle Jay

All us AZB kids want bedtime stories about you plucking the pigeons out on the road.

Over at this thread
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=301733
is a 1974 article from Sports Illustrated.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089351/index.htm

"Jay Helfert, Toupee Jay, comes in, small, agile and bald. The toupee is what he wears the second time he plays for money in a town on the road."

Photos would be good.
We promise not to laugh.

Much thanks in advance.
Now I'll go get into my jammies and crawl into bed.

 

[jay helfert]

Seems like another lifetime ago! I could play a little then.
You can find lots of stories of road trips from long ago in my book Pool Wars, but thanks for asking. I would estimate between the ages of 20 and 32 I played at least 500 different guys in maybe 300 poolrooms. I had a pretty good track record too, I used to say like the Globetrotters :wink:
Now I can't beat Tom Thumb!

 

[JoeyA]

Uncle Jay

All us AZB kids want bedtime stories about you plucking the pigeons out on the road.

Over at this thread
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=301733
is a 1974 article from Sports Illustrated.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089351/index.htm

"Jay Helfert, Toupee Jay, comes in, small, agile and bald. The toupee is what he wears the second time he plays for money in a town on the road."

Photos would be good.
We promise not to laugh.

Much thanks in advance.
Now I'll go get into my jammies and crawl into bed.

Nice SI story.
Thanks!

 

[Maxx]

Uncle Jay

All us AZB kids want bedtime stories about you plucking the pigeons out on the road.

Over at this thread
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=301733
is a 1974 article from Sports Illustrated.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089351/index.htm

"Jay Helfert, Toupee Jay, comes in, small, agile and bald. The toupee is what he wears the second time he plays for money in a town on the road."

Photos would be good.
We promise not to laugh.

Much thanks in advance.
Now I'll go get into my jammies and crawl into bed.

Thanks for the link. At the end of the story there is a list of related articles (or click on a highlighted name); some good ones that I had never read.

 

[richiebalto]

Very interresting thank you!