Denny Searcy
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Denny was the right handed version of Marvin Henderson, the two sweetest strokes of all time! Kelly was third. 
Ask Kid Dynomite. I think he and/or somebody in his family might have a vintage video of this.
Here is a post of Keith McCready's from 2009 about Boston Joey which mentions Searcy:
Bill, it's funny you mention that name Boston Joey. Boston Joey was a great bar table player. I hadn't thought about him in a long while. Him and I played a few times, a couple times in Alabama, Dothan I think, and we played in the Carolinas too.
We played with the big cueball. I was giving Joey the 8 and 9. That was my standard weight in the late '70s to give up. I had that reputation, so they knew they could ask for it and get it. And they did.
Joey would never miss. I was playing some of the best pool of my life at that time we played in Alabama, and Joey hit me with two sixes and a seven, and I still broke him. As far as I'm concerned, he was one of the toughest bar table players that I ever played.
We did had something in common, me and Joey. We both liked to drink and used to get that mixture right. We must have had it right then because when we did play, neither of missed a ball for hours and hours. He might have missed one ball in two hours. I think I was about 19 or 20 then when we played, and Joey was older than me.
That's how tough the competition was in the '70s on the bar table. If you didn't run sixes, sevens, and eights, you weren't going to get the money. In my day, there was only a few real good big cueball bar table players. Joey was one of them. You had Joe Salazar too. Jerry Brock was another one, and Denny Searcy was good himself....
Bill, it's funny you mention that name Boston Joey. Boston Joey was a great bar table player. I hadn't thought about him in a long while. Him and I played a few times, a couple times in Alabama, Dothan I think, and we played in the Carolinas too.
We played with the big cueball. I was giving Joey the 8 and 9. That was my standard weight in the late '70s to give up. I had that reputation, so they knew they could ask for it and get it. And they did.
Joey would never miss. I was playing some of the best pool of my life at that time we played in Alabama, and Joey hit me with two sixes and a seven, and I still broke him. As far as I'm concerned, he was one of the toughest bar table players that I ever played.
We did had something in common, me and Joey. We both liked to drink and used to get that mixture right. We must have had it right then because when we did play, neither of missed a ball for hours and hours. He might have missed one ball in two hours. I think I was about 19 or 20 then when we played, and Joey was older than me.
That's how tough the competition was in the '70s on the bar table. If you didn't run sixes, sevens, and eights, you weren't going to get the money. In my day, there was only a few real good big cueball bar table players. Joey was one of them. You had Joe Salazar too. Jerry Brock was another one, and Denny Searcy was good himself....
You are a lucky guy to have been around Denny. Sorry he passed away like he did.
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